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But this is ignorant and not true.
For laymen's purposes it pretty much is, though. When was the last time anyone on Linux/OSX got some adware / popups? I've also never heard of antivirus for Linux. Which doesn't mean there aren't viruses, it means it's not a concern on the most part.
What good alternatives would people suggest? What should be the "goto" site we could suggest to a novice for finding a clean copy of almost any software...any suggestions? (Assuming that an expert user would straight to the source website)
What good alternatives would people suggest? What should be the "goto" site we could suggest to a novice for finding a clean copy of almost any software...any suggestions? (Assuming that an expert user would straight to the source website)
When my mother forwards me the latest malware scare chain letter she got frm her friends, I tell her to picture her computer as a plane flying at Mach 4, high above in the stratosphere, confident almost nothing launched from the ground can harm her. That's because she doesn't use Windows.
But this is ignorant and not true.
I am aware there are attack vectors than can be employed against her setup, but the odds of something that could affect her friends also affecting her are vanishingly small - and I have never observed one of those on the wild. Education plays a role too and I took the steps to show her what looks fishy. Her box is also behind a very paranoid router that will page me if anything fishy starts to happen on her side of the network. It was so silent I programmed a weekly "lamp test" so I know it's still watching.
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For laymen's purposes it pretty much is, though. When was the last time anyone on Linux/OSX got some adware / popups? I've also never heard of antivirus for Linux. Which doesn't mean there aren't viruses, it means it's not a concern on the most part.
http://www.clamav.net/ if you were actually wondering. There's also a sweet osx port: http://www.clamxav.com/
What good alternatives would people suggest? What should be the "goto" site we could suggest to a novice for finding a clean copy of almost any software...any suggestions? (Assuming that an expert user would straight to the source website)
The software producer's website is the only safe place.
"This is probably why CNET switch to installing the Babylon Toolbar yesterday. This is a good and welcome move by Microsoft, but the whole process of paying “distribution partners“ to changer user's home page to MSN and search engine to Bing is rather sketchy" I am puzzled by the reaction of some journalists and people here. Have you actually thought why the toolbar is marked as malware? Usually, that's because one g…
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But this is ignorant and not true.
For laymen's purposes it pretty much is, though. When was the last time anyone on Linux/OSX got some adware / popups? I've also never heard of antivirus for Linux. Which doesn't mean there aren't viruses, it means it's not a concern on the most part.
There's three things here. First, adding a toolbar and screwing with user settings is freaking lame, but everyone does it and it's something that's been an accepted way to monitize software development. However, injecting that into other people's software is low, especially if the developers aren't aware of it. CNET should be ashame. Lastly, the way they present it to users should be plainly criminal. There's a way t…
Im not sure about the deceptive tactics, they just trying to get people attention, not just unmarking checkboxes without reading.
What good alternatives would people suggest? What should be the "goto" site we could suggest to a novice for finding a clean copy of almost any software...any suggestions? (Assuming that an expert user would straight to the source website)
The software producer's website is the only safe place.
Instead - Go to filehippo search for X in the big search bar at top - download first result - is a much easier workflow. (Trust me on this one - I tech support about 6 relatives)