fjrnbdjukg@mycomputer.com wrote:
 
> No Anti-Virus software works.  But you're likely one of the billions
> of people who believe it does something and you give large amounts
> of money to the rip-off companies who sell their so called
> "anti-virus" crap.

I've been saying the same thing here for years.

Way back around 10 years ago, there were some in the tech press who were
saying that the AV industry was going to collapse because their primary
customers (corporations, governments and other institutions) were going
to realize the poor value proposition of AV software.  What these
pundits failed to realize is the absurd human condition to seek out
protection and security (in this case, of the electronic / internet
variety) and to incorrectly perceive the true effectiveness of these
products.  

It's also probably the case that IT people simply see it as job security
to constantly inflate their department's budgets by maintaining the
purchasing of increasingly more costly "security" solutions, regardless
their effectiveness, simply to satisfy the ignorant desires of the
executives that pay them.  Because when their organization gets hacked,
the IT department can claim that they "buy and deploy the most expensive
security solutions known to man".  Like the emperor's new clothes -
woven from the finest, most expensive code.

> It dont matter if you buy the most expensive AV crap, or use the
> ad-supported (so called), Free crap, it dont do one goddamn
> thing.

Again, something I've been saying here for years.  Just look at my past
posts where I show poor initial detection of files submitted to
VirusTotal.

> All of this, courtesy of some pimple faced, 16 year old ghetto
> punk living in his parents basement, with no future and no goals
> in life except to destroy other people's computers by writing
> virus code.

Not quite.

All of this is courtesy of Micro$oft, and their treasonous subversion of
the computing security of the US and nations around the world just to
satisfy their short-sighted financial need to replace then-current
Win-9x/me (which did not require remote server-based product activation)
with the best trojan-hosting platform known to mankind -> Windows XP.  

An operating system unfit for direct exposure to the internet for at
least the first 6 years of it's product lifetime.

An operating system unnecessarily complex and overmanaged for the needs
of the vast majority of installations.

Macro$haft and the NT-line of Windoze allowed the pimple-faced
miscreants to turn what would have been a low-level, low-impact nuisance
into a global malware industry.  The industrial levels of spam that have
existed since about mid-2004 can be traced directly back to the
needless, forced adoption of XP starting in 2002 into PC's at all levels
(home, soho, edu, corp/org/gov, etc).

> Stop giving your money to these crooks who claim their AV software
> will protect you.  IT WONT.  You may as well just flush that money
> down the toilet..... 

While I've been running Windows 98 with various enhancements for many
years - and with no AV software at all, the fact is that vulnerability
is baked into the NT-line of Windows (and other platforms like
Android).  The computer-owning public is simply not capable or desirous
of delving into the details and taking charge of their chosen hardware
(phone, tablet, laptop, desktop) and reconfiguring it to make it less
vulnerable (or invunlerable) to remote code exection and control.  For
many such consumer devices, such reconfiguration is not even possible -
by design and by marketing intent.

> At least that way it wont be filling the pockets of these
> criminals who sell this worthless AV software, for they are
> as bad as the #######s who write the viruses.  ALL of them
> belong in prison!

The executives that were running Milkro$oft 15 years ago are the ones
that should get their ass hauled off to prison - starting with Bill
Gates himself.
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