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Not so hidden agendaNot so hidden agendaPosted Aug 18, 2004 21:03 UTC (Wed) by leandro (subscriber, #1460)Parent article: Two security articles
His motivation is clear. If there werent proprietary programs, there wouldnt be virii, and the incidence of spam, zombies and the like would be much lesser. Script kiddies would get much less luck, and while real crackers would still have a field, dealing with them would be for real specialists, not for Symantec with its lets tape these MS holes line of business.
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Not so hidden agenda Posted Aug 19, 2004 14:48 UTC (Thu) by robochan (guest, #18434) [Link] Exactly. The very first line of this 'article':"With over 25 years' experience in the security business, almost exclusively in Fortune 500 companies" tells it all. He's trying to be "proactive" in the sense that he's trying to avoid the apparent inevitability of more and more business moving towards open source software - a system in which his products have no market. Symantec's Vincent Steckler recently said "If 90 percent [of software] was open source there would be just as many attacks, only worse. Imagine smart hackers with [access to] source code" More and more cogs in their FUD machine show up every day.
Not so hidden agenda Posted Aug 19, 2004 19:57 UTC (Thu) by crouchet (guest, #1084) [Link] I think there is another, more direct motivation there as well. Open source virus control software such as ClamAV is becoming more mature and more popular. He is trying to tell us why we should continue to buy his product rather than use an open source alternative, but without directly saying that.
A lot of users have not realized that open source AV software exists but you can bet the people at Norton are well aware of it.
JC
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