McAfee's HackerSafe: When all else fails, rebrand it!

It doesn't surprise me.: McAfee and all the security companies are failing miserably at times to keep up with the cracker community.

Simply put, they don't have 1 thousandth the required resources to mitigate the cracker community, and that is assuming they actually know all the threat vectors. On the desktop, which no single suite protects better than 88% (many many reviews), leading to recommendations of at least 2 to get the overlap and hope for the best, on the server, where it is not just a client, but both sides of the transaction, I would be amazed if they didn't do more harm than good giving a false sense of security.

I am not picking on McAfee, I have seen many instances where an up to date Norton has allowed malware and viruses that were only detected after installing AVG. What's the solution, root jails, apparmor or equivalent, isolated VMs and rock solid, truly knowledgeable IT. Until that happens, we really won't see a more secure internet anywhwere.

TripleII; Posted by: TripleII Posted on: 05/12/08 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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It doesn't surprise me. TripleII | 05/12/08

I agree nmcfeters | 05/13/08

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McAfee's "Hacker Safe"... bfilipiak@... | 05/13/08

Well done nmcfeters | 05/13/08

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