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To: Tzfat

It says you have NO FEEDBACK LOOP as to whether you are infected or compromised. Because people like you are arrogant into thinking you’ll never be attacked, hackers will prey on you in the dark of the night. This attitude wouldn’t last a week in the TOS military security world. And shouldn’t that be what we strive to achieve out here in the world of the little people?

Antivirus and network scanning provides users the necessary feedback needed to identify security breaches. Only FOOLS believe their security is 100%, requiring no need for security reviews. At a minimum if you’re not running AV, scan vulnerabilities and exploits and scan often. Like daily. Hourly is good. Real-time is best.


30 posted on 01/03/2016 6:42:43 PM PST by Up Yours Marxists
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To: Up Yours Marxists

You aren’t paying attention. I never said I don’t know what is going on on my networked Macs. I just don’t have to respond to too numerous to count alerts from antivirus or anti-malware, because.

Arrogance is thinking that because you go through an update dump every Tuesday, and run 3rd party bloat like Norton, that you are secure.

Mac professionals are very aware of the security on their machine, because we actually can see more than a stock Windows machine can.

Do you know everything your Windows 10 box is sending? If you did, you might consider joining the class action against MS for invasion of privacy. My Mac cannot send or receive without me being to watch.


32 posted on 01/03/2016 6:52:20 PM PST by Tzfat
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To: Up Yours Marxists

Antivirus and network scanning provides users the necessary feedback needed to identify security breaches. Only FOOLS believe their security is 100%, requiring no need for security reviews. At a minimum if you’re not running AV, scan vulnerabilities and exploits and scan often. Like daily. Hourly is good. Real-time is best.


You can run your AV scan every second for all the good it will do you. The problem inherent in AV software is it only knows about known viruses. The next new zero day released it’s useless.


47 posted on 01/03/2016 7:24:59 PM PST by Flick Lives (One should not attend even the end of the world without a good breakfast. -- Heinlein)
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