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My MBP only has 8 cores but often times during the day it locks up and blows up a hurricane of fan noise. Why? Idiotic Jamf management software and a virus chec
by coldcode 8y ago
My MBP only has 8 cores but often times during the day it locks up and blows up a hurricane of fan noise. Why? Idiotic Jamf management software and a virus checker that never finds anything. Some days you only get 1 core for work when it gets stuck and have to reboot to get it back. It's not always the computer, OS or the software you use.
- posixplz 8y agoYep, Jamf and McAfee are both trash-quality software that significantly reduce the overall security of a system. McAfee is a well-known story: their AV unpacks and analyses potential malware via a kernel module. Wtf? Jamf's code quality and security model are abysmal. It blows my mind that apple recommends the use of Jamf to large Mac shops. Having peeked under the hood at previous employers, I was extremely disappointed. The product is insecure by design - not what one wants for device management that's given root privileges on machines containing corporate crown jewels. I highly doubt their operational paradigm for Jamf cloud has changed in the last year, either. I apologize for going completely off-topic, but these products make my blood boil. Especially because I now work for a shop that uses both Jamf and McAfee for Mac "security". On a positive note, I removed the corporate mandated malware with ease - no boot to single-user required.
- sfink 8y agoThere was a time that running Windows absolutely required you to use an antivirus solution. It was crazy not to. Those days are past. Now you have to be crazy to run one. Even setting security aside, I think antivirus packages are the number one source of instability and weird performance problems.