Re: Antivirus Tools Fool XP's Security Center

From: Harry Ohrn (harry---_at_webtree.ca)
Date: 02/03/05 

Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 11:17:34 -0600

"! anonymous" <anonymous@anonymous.anonymous> wrote in message
news:36f46rF5254uaU1@individual.net...
| Antivirus Tools Fool XP's Security Center
| http://www.msfn.org/comments.php?shownews=11726
|
| Microsoft's Windows XP Service Pack 2 is supposed to improve security.
| Its Windows Security Center should alert you when your antivirus
| software is missing or out of date. But in our tests, both McAfee's
| Internet Security Suite 2005 and Symantec's Norton Internet Security
| 2005 crippled SP2's ability to deliver accurate alerts immediately
| after installation.
|
| We installed each application on a PC running SP2, and both caused the
| Windows Security Center to report erroneously that the products were
| up-to-date. Any antivirus software must be updated immediately after
| you install it to protect the computer against viruses discovered
| since the software's initial release.
|
| McAfee and Symantec acknowledge that their products intentionally
| disable the Windows Security Center's messaging feature. Both
| companies say the reason for doing so is to streamline customers'
| experience; neither company plans to alter its practices.
|
| Full story: PC World
| http://www.pcworld.com/resource/article/0,aid,119376,pg,1,RSS,RSS,00.asp

So both McAfee and Symantec build software to run on Microsoft's platform.
They intentionally cripple the very platform they run on. Sounds like a
parasite. The parasite invades the host and then cripples it. Another good
reason to avoid purchasing McAfee and Symantec products. 

-- 
Harry Ohrn MS-MVP [Shell/User]
www.webtree.ca/windowsxp

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