Re: [PLUG] Stop Helping Me!

[jeff <jeffv@op.net>]

On 11/07/2011 04:14 PM, Julien Vehent wrote:
> How would they justify the ridiculous cost of their hash-based pattern
> matching engines if they weren't blocking random files once in a while ?

Our firewall seems to stop quite a bit of my utility downloading.
To be perfectly fair, both the firewall and AV objected to a suite that 
included a password scanner. (nirsoft is just plain cool)



> Antivirus solutions are a joke.

You mean the pop-ups on our users' computers aren't from antivirus? :)



> filtering based on categories if you really need a filter, otherwise,
> just let people crash their computers once every 2 months, push a master
> to restore and when they lose their data twice, they'll learn to be more
> careful.

Let me see if I can phrase this carefully....
While I approve, it would go over like the proverbial colonic output in 
a house of worship.

Besides, they only keep me around because they like to laugh when I say 
`linux'.



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