Comments on: McAfee SiteAdvisor ’study’

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 04:24:40 +0000

Senator Joe McCarthy, of the House Un-American Activities Committee, sits behind his table in Senate chambers, and, in a deep gravely voice, badgers Jon with “Are you now, or have you ever been, owner of a website that links to others which either are, of and by themselves, or possessed of links to malware and other assorted bits of nastyness?”. Jon stutters in outrage, then settles down and proclaims “No, Senator; your suppositions have not one single grain of truth [to them]”. Upon which, the Senator shakes a piece of paper in his hand and states, to the chamber-at-large, “I have here in my hand a list of malware sites which p2pnet.net links to [etc., etc.]”.

McAfee and Senator McCarthy would have not 1 whit of problem understanding each other.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 00:01:26 +0000

It sort of shows the mentality of McAfee and who they think they are tailoring their products for. If high tech is a screen saver, they are targeting a really dumbed down user.

People that show up at places like this are the exception to the rule and for the most part are the early adapters. High tech has an entirely different meaning and expectation than it does to the average internet user I gather.

It is very obvious that McAfee has a changing definition as to what is malware to include a product they once endorsed and now classify as a hazard. I wonder just how flexible that definition is but suspect I already know. I wonder how the RIAA site is classed? Especially that on-line confession site that started up with the p2p malware specials being advertised until the web started to take notice? Somehow I suspect they will have very little problems with it. Yet you can be sure the recorder is running over time at such a site, gathering all the data it can get.

The RIAA has long been known for sponsoring malware on p2p sites even though it doesn’t make mention of owning up to it in public. One has only to go back and look at the practices of Loudeye to see it in action. Loudeye was under contract to act on the RIAAs behalf to seed bad files and trojaned files on to the p2p nets. I also suspect if you go search for “free mp3s” you won’t have to wait very long to really get a freebee. Luckily those that do get for free don’t find it that way.

Business makes strange bedfellows, such as christian movements endorsing the cartels over pron offerings to be found on p2p, claiming it exposes the young to sexual overtones or worse. No mention is made of looking at what their bedfellow offers. As bad if not worse than the p2p sites. Now we have McAfee saying that their past bedfellow isn’t good enough today.

The corporation is greedy and again it shows through just how that greed affects business as usual.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 20:33:33 +0000

A ’screen saver’ is “high tech”??????????

If that’s the case for McAfee, then they truly __*DO*__ have extemely __*BIG*__ problems!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ROTFLMAO! @ screen saver = high tech ……shaking head in disbelief…

YES, screen savers CAN be harbingers of some very nasty mal-ware but giving them “high tech” status??? Well, that’s just plain deliberate stupidity!!!!!!