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> For corporate IT, it’s a compliance requirement. It is the equivalent of putting a sign in the bathroom that says to wash your hands, only less effective. AV
by 52-6F-62 7y ago
> For corporate IT, it’s a compliance requirement. It is the equivalent of putting a sign in the bathroom that says to wash your hands, only less effective. AV does almost nothing and costs almost nothing.
Corporate IT at my previous employer even allowed and aided us in uninstalling the resource-hogging McAfee installation that comes default with a company machine. That stuff was crippling our machines.
- bradknowles 7y agoWe loved it at a previous employer when the corporate-approved Endpoint Protection Solution silently installed a new firewall component, without telling anyone. Of course, it is (was?) a requirement of the corporate-approved Mobile Device Management system. Broke everyone in the company for weeks (?), because the only thing it allowed was ports 80 and 443. No one could figure out what the problem was, because the OS-standard firewall configuration clearly showed that all the required ports were open, and therefore it couldn't possibly be a firewall problem. Well, at least it broke all those people who had the corporate MDM software installed on their machines. Those who had a different MDM installed and so could not install the corporate MDM, well those people were able to get regular work done.
- 52-6F-62 7y agoOh man. Are you talking about Triton? I'm forced to endure that for now as well. It's terrible. It actively attempts to inject its own version of libwebp into nearly every single build and breaks them because it's not signed! It's maddening, and crippling! We've recently moved umbrella companies, so that software will hopefully be going the way of the buffalo, but I can't even run Vagrant on my machine because of it.