{"id":645,"date":"2009-07-04T22:33:56","date_gmt":"2009-07-04T22:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/notechmagazine.com\/2009\/07\/antivirus-software.html"},"modified":"2014-04-27T15:49:56","modified_gmt":"2014-04-27T13:49:56","slug":"antivirus-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/2009\/07\/antivirus-software.html","title":{"rendered":"Antivirus Software Sucks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s not just AV software. The entire software industry operates this way.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. <\/strong>Shovel feature-rich bug-ware onto unsuspecting schlubs to build &#8220;brand&#8221;<br \/>\n(especially in the enterprise\/IT market where the person purchasing the<br \/>\nsoftware is often not the person who has to use it, so they make<br \/>\ndecisions based on feature list and brand name rather than quality)<br \/>\n<strong>2.<\/strong> Wait for hobbyists, researchers, or smaller companies to figure out how to do it right<br \/>\n<strong>3.<\/strong> Buy their companies<br \/>\n<strong>4.<\/strong> Repeat&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Quoted from the discussion at <a href=\"http:\/\/tech.slashdot.org\/story\/09\/07\/04\/1121255\/Symantec-Exec-Warns-Against-Relying-On-Free-Antivirus\" target=\"_blank\">Slashdot<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And: &#8220;It&#8217;s not just AV software. The entire software industry operates this way. 1. Shovel feature-rich bug-ware onto unsuspecting schlubs to build &#8220;brand&#8221; (especially in the enterprise\/IT market where the person purchasing the software is often not the person who has to use it, so they make decisions based on feature list and brand name [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[86,99,262],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=645"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1006,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645\/revisions\/1006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}