Two-thirds of all Android antivirus apps are frauds
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Huh?! And I thought ALL anti-virus apps were FRAUDS.
Soon after I bought my first PowerMac, nearly 25 years ago, there was a nice utility package produced by Peter Norton. It did things such as optimizing space on the hard drive as well as hunting viruses.
Then Symantec, which also had a pretty decent anti-virus program, bought the company and the Norton package became garbage and didn’t work as well as it did before.
I had the exact same experience and literally had to trash an entire computer, because of how slowwwwwwwww the Symantec anti-virus program had rendered my system. Shockingly bad. Dumped it, and never went back. Hey BA … I thought Mac’s were ‘virus free’? Steve Jobs told me they were …
What was that program called? SAM, or something like that? Whatever its name was, it turned out to be a nasty beast and I eventually removed it and never used it again. A lot of $$$ spent for nothing.
As for Macs being virus-free, yeah, I heard the same thing and, for many years, it was probably true. I bought my last Mac nearly a dozen years ago and I haven’t upgraded the OS for nearly a decade, so I have no idea what the situation is nowadays.
Most of the machines I have now run FreeBSD. Now that‘s an operating system!
‘FRAUDS’ is a strong word.
swindle, racket, trick, diddle, con, con trick, flimflam, gyp, kite, ramp, twist, hustle, grift, shakedown, bunco, boondoggle, etc.
I use the free apps. That way delusions of efficacy are entirely inventions of my own mind.
ha ha ha !!! more than half !!! ha ha ha !!!
when I taught desktop apps, I used to tell the people about half of what you heard about ‘comupters’ was bull. including how useful they were, aka ‘cook with it clean with it educate yer team with it commodore 64’ jingle. (remember that?)
and pricing.
which was kinda like getting a quote for a car which broke it down to engine, frame, tranny, (not that kind), drive train, seats, dash board, body, bla bla bla. added up quick eh !!
and the ridiculous claims about performance and upgradeability (ya, fer the price of a brand new system yer antique can be manhandled).
then one day I ran the college’s virus scanner floppy thru my hard drive installed Norton virus scanner and . . . . . . . . it found a virus. ha ha ha !!!!
naturally they sacked me when I commenced to bytch to mgmt about the appalling state of viruses on numerous college systems.
the place is LOOOOONG gone.
the ‘virus scanner’ did N-O-T-H-I-N-G but pop up warnings about ‘upgrade needed!!!!! ack !!!!!! serious infection !!!!!! pay lots and lots NOW !!!!!!’
Ah, the old Commodore 64…. That was the first decent computer I owned and it actually was a pretty good machine for its time.
Before that, I had two other machines. The first one was a Sinclair ZX-80, which was rather clunky. Then I bought a TI-99 when Texas Instruments dumped them after deciding to get out of that market and I wrote some programs for it.
But it was the ’64 that allowed me to create and print documents and write programs, as well as log onto services such as CompuServe.
A few years later, I bought my first DOS machine, an old Sanyo laptop (no hard drive) and the rest, as they say, is history.
Fraudulent Virus Scanner?!?!
But It’s FREEEEEEE!!!!!
You get what you pay for.
A very interesting browser is Puffin. It uses the cloud an Puffin’s computers for everything and only passes back the web page you requested! IE: there’s nothing on your computer for a virus to work with! And it’s fast. With all processing being done on their computers. I use it on an old under-powered Android 4.1 tablet. So old that the lightweight browsers seize up.
Puffin is also available for IOS and Windows. My 4 desktops/servers run Linux so I can’t comment on these.
I liked it so much I paid the Pro $7 – not because of the “free” intermittent ads.
When I was growing up we did not have cat videos.
We had to watch real cats.
When I was growing up, we also watched the D-8 Cats as well.
Huh?! And I thought ALL anti-virus apps were FRAUDS.
Soon after I bought my first PowerMac, nearly 25 years ago, there was a nice utility package produced by Peter Norton. It did things such as optimizing space on the hard drive as well as hunting viruses.
Then Symantec, which also had a pretty decent anti-virus program, bought the company and the Norton package became garbage and didn’t work as well as it did before.
I had the exact same experience and literally had to trash an entire computer, because of how slowwwwwwwww the Symantec anti-virus program had rendered my system. Shockingly bad. Dumped it, and never went back. Hey BA … I thought Mac’s were ‘virus free’? Steve Jobs told me they were …
What was that program called? SAM, or something like that? Whatever its name was, it turned out to be a nasty beast and I eventually removed it and never used it again. A lot of $$$ spent for nothing.
As for Macs being virus-free, yeah, I heard the same thing and, for many years, it was probably true. I bought my last Mac nearly a dozen years ago and I haven’t upgraded the OS for nearly a decade, so I have no idea what the situation is nowadays.
Most of the machines I have now run FreeBSD. Now that‘s an operating system!
‘FRAUDS’ is a strong word.
swindle, racket, trick, diddle, con, con trick, flimflam, gyp, kite, ramp, twist, hustle, grift, shakedown, bunco, boondoggle, etc.
I use the free apps. That way delusions of efficacy are entirely inventions of my own mind.
ha ha ha !!! more than half !!! ha ha ha !!!
when I taught desktop apps, I used to tell the people about half of what you heard about ‘comupters’ was bull. including how useful they were, aka ‘cook with it clean with it educate yer team with it commodore 64’ jingle. (remember that?)
and pricing.
which was kinda like getting a quote for a car which broke it down to engine, frame, tranny, (not that kind), drive train, seats, dash board, body, bla bla bla. added up quick eh !!
and the ridiculous claims about performance and upgradeability (ya, fer the price of a brand new system yer antique can be manhandled).
then one day I ran the college’s virus scanner floppy thru my hard drive installed Norton virus scanner and . . . . . . . . it found a virus. ha ha ha !!!!
naturally they sacked me when I commenced to bytch to mgmt about the appalling state of viruses on numerous college systems.
the place is LOOOOONG gone.
oh, and here’s sumptin else to add:
http://rouzell.net/2014/01/20/american-greed-innovative-marketing/
the ‘virus scanner’ did N-O-T-H-I-N-G but pop up warnings about ‘upgrade needed!!!!! ack !!!!!! serious infection !!!!!! pay lots and lots NOW !!!!!!’
Ah, the old Commodore 64…. That was the first decent computer I owned and it actually was a pretty good machine for its time.
Before that, I had two other machines. The first one was a Sinclair ZX-80, which was rather clunky. Then I bought a TI-99 when Texas Instruments dumped them after deciding to get out of that market and I wrote some programs for it.
But it was the ’64 that allowed me to create and print documents and write programs, as well as log onto services such as CompuServe.
A few years later, I bought my first DOS machine, an old Sanyo laptop (no hard drive) and the rest, as they say, is history.
Fraudulent Virus Scanner?!?!
But It’s FREEEEEEE!!!!!
You get what you pay for.
A very interesting browser is Puffin. It uses the cloud an Puffin’s computers for everything and only passes back the web page you requested! IE: there’s nothing on your computer for a virus to work with! And it’s fast. With all processing being done on their computers. I use it on an old under-powered Android 4.1 tablet. So old that the lightweight browsers seize up.
Puffin is also available for IOS and Windows. My 4 desktops/servers run Linux so I can’t comment on these.
I liked it so much I paid the Pro $7 – not because of the “free” intermittent ads.
When I was growing up we did not have cat videos.
We had to watch real cats.
When I was growing up, we also watched the D-8 Cats as well.