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Comment Re:Ineffective advertising (Score 3, Insightful) 149

4. The PSU is at the bottom, heat rises, and directly above it they have the SLI video cards. This is a terrible design.

The PSU at the bottom is pretty much the standard these days.
It makes room for top vents or a radiator that way. And the heath output of the PSU is so minimal
compared to other parts that it's probably the best place for the PSU.

Comment Re:Dead as a profit source for Symantec, well, ... (Score 1) 331

But they are ! Antivirus programs run most of their program as a service (services.msc). A quick look reveals Mcafee uses 4 services
Framework, Shield, Task Manager, Validation Trust protection.

The avg user program and tray icon's are just front-ends to control some aspects of these services or to start custom scans.

Comment Re:Dead as a profit source for Symantec, well, ... (Score 2) 331

p.s. it is perfectly viable for a literate individual to not use an antivirus. It is also possible to not use AV on a PC in a corporate environment, but it has its implications. T

I think using the OS supplied security controls the Windows Vista/7/8 family provides: Applocker/SRS, Group Policy, App-V
is preferable to running antivirus in an OR scenario. It's also a lot more complicated.

Comment Re:Physical destruction (Score 1) 116

And takes a very long time /dev/{u}random does not have a lot of bandwith. In my opinion a single dd if=/dev/zero suffices for drives going out of the company.
But for a reinstallation of a system in the company I just format and reinstall again because a zero pass takes a long time as well.

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