Remember the "Outlook Email Security Update" from mid-2000 with the pop-ups asking to approve programs sending mail or gathering data from your address book and why it was so difficult to disable?
Screenshot of the Visual Effects dialog: http://i.imgur.com/fNQJjxX.png
Yea, read the end of https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/... and weep. And as it happens Google recently fired Vic Gundotra.
I like to mention this: http://arstechnica.com/civis/v...
At MS?
Eventually Norton AV began to take less resources and I think became easier to uninstall, but I am not sure about the detection rate.
ELS is only available for RHEL3 and RHEL4 which would otherwise have only 7 years of support, and it covers only a limited number of packages. Read Red Hat's lifecycle page.
That is a different problem.
with an option for 3 more years of extended support.
Read the fine point, the 3 more years do not include any updates.
I think they had much poorer support though.
It took a long time (ten years?) to get just a basic 32-bit protected mode operating system out to people at large after the hardware (80386) was out.
Ah, this is exactly one of the reasons why the MS OS/2 2.0 fiasco is one of my favorite topics!
I mean in the sense that people have been predicting the rise of WinXP exploits after it ended support. And the April 2014 date comes from 2 years of mainstream support after Vista was released plus 5 years of extended support afterwards BTW.
I believe this is an error.
What is funny is that the current exploits do not target XP.
It is not that simple, but I do think Vic Gundotra needs to be fired for a while now.
Consultants are mystical people who ask a company for a number and then give it back to them.
