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Enkidu <enkidu@nogodhere.net> wrote:
>Emrys Davies wrote:
>
>>
>> "Charles Tomaras" <tomaras@tomaras.com> wrote in message
>> news:IQU1n.17089$Wl3.2420@newsfe11.iad...
>>>
>>> "John Smith" <someone@somewhere.com.INVALID> wrote in message
>>> news:hi954m$i59$1@news.eternal-september.org...
>>>
>>> http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/
>>>
>>> Free, works well, low resource overhead...pretty much zero
>> problems...you
>>> won't know it's there and you won't have to mess with it.
>>
>> What is your experience with this product please?
>
>I gotta wonder if you want your AV software from the same people who
>wrote your OS, no matter what OS you use. If MS (or Apple) left a big
>security hole, would you rather it be blocked by someone looking over
>his shoulder at the public relations problems such a hole would cause,
>or would you rather it be filled by someone who is looking ahead at the
>the public relations coup of being the first to block that hole?
>
I don't get it, why would you not get your anti virus or security
software from the same people who wrote the OS?
They know their product (the OS in this case) more than anyone else out
there.
Your argument doesn't make sense, sorry.
>Independence and competion can be good.
True, but that has no effect on this specific argument.
Enkidu <enkidu@nogodhere.net> wrote:
>Emrys Davies wrote:
>
>>
>> "Charles Tomaras" <tomaras@tomaras.com> wrote in message
>> news:IQU1n.17089$Wl3.2420@newsfe11.iad...
>>>
>>> "John Smith" <someone@somewhere.com.INVALID> wrote in message
>>> news:hi954m$i59$1@news.eternal-september.org...
>>>
>>> http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/
>>>
>>> Free, works well, low resource overhead...pretty much zero
>> problems...you
>>> won't know it's there and you won't have to mess with it.
>>
>> What is your experience with this product please?
>
>I gotta wonder if you want your AV software from the same people who
>wrote your OS, no matter what OS you use. If MS (or Apple) left a big
>security hole, would you rather it be blocked by someone looking over
>his shoulder at the public relations problems such a hole would cause,
>or would you rather it be filled by someone who is looking ahead at the
>the public relations coup of being the first to block that hole?
>
I don't get it, why would you not get your anti virus or security
software from the same people who wrote the OS?
They know their product (the OS in this case) more than anyone else out
there.
Your argument doesn't make sense, sorry.
>Independence and competion can be good.
True, but that has no effect on this specific argument.