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If anyone stepped up to handle it, it was McAfee and Norton/Symantec. And they really didn't do a very good job. Really, the sysadmins of the world were doing
by lukeschlather 16y ago
If anyone stepped up to handle it, it was McAfee and Norton/Symantec. And they really didn't do a very good job.
Really, the sysadmins of the world were doing most of the heavy lifting.
- tptacek 16y agoThere's "handling", and then there's "vampirism".
- lukeschlather 16y agoI once used Norton's tools to remove an infection from a machine, when nothing else would work. Nowadays I would of course get the data off and wipe the machine, but this was when I was younger and storage was not so cheap and plentiful as it is now. They have definitely done some small measure of good in securing the Windows ecosystem, and in the first half of the last decade, they did far more than Microsoft.
- jdp23 16y agototally agreed about the sysadmins. i think there's lots of people who deserve credit for stepping up to try to handle it -- security researchers, Linux folks, and yes Microsoft (things really did change starting in 2001 or so, although of course there's still room for improvement). sysadmins are at the top of my list though and don't get anywhere neary the credit they deserve