Spamming as a Service in Total Protection

["Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah" <rmslade () shaw ca>]

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/19/us-mcafee-idUSTRE80I0A620120119

I post this primarily as a warning to those who have this product installed.

However, I do feel compelled to note that this outfit, along with another that 
comes in a yellow box, and one particularly trendy product, have had a) a great 
deal of market success, and b) a number of absolutely stunning failures over the 
years.  (Which, I suppose, is just another example of how marketing trumps 
security, every time ...)

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rslade () vcn bc ca     slade () victoria tc ca     rslade () computercrime org
Separation of test and production environments is one of those
things that is such basic common sense that it wouldn't occur to
me to have to point to something that says to do it.  The first
time you test something on your production network and it breaks
something else which breaks something else, etc etc etc is the
LAST time they will ask you why it has to be done on a separate
network.                            - Mim Britt, CISSPforum 20090126
victoria.tc.ca/techrev/rms.htm http://www.infosecbc.org/links
http://blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/author/p1/
http://twitter.com/rslade
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