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Comment Metal Gear Solid (Score 1) 1013

Seems that Hideo Kojima and the writers from Metal Gear Solid are visionaries. While i understand that guns should be reliable and actually fire when needed, it would be nice if the gun only fired from his legitimate owner. Maybe some exception for the military guns, since that wouldn't work on warfare.

Comment Re:No platform is 100 percent secure? (Score 1) 299

yet %APPDATA% and the user profile is where the data the user actually cares about, so viruses actually do a lot of damage. I don't ware if a virus wipes out Office or some app, i would prefer to reinstall an app rather to start generating the data from scratch.

Same deal on Linux. I wonder why people always gives out the "viruses can't hit / , linux is secure" excuse.

Comment Re:Better than the unix command line? Seriously? (Score 1) 343

We are in Venezuela, and have branches in 20 cities all over the country. Our wan (frame relay) speed is between 1 and 2 Mbit/s and all users authenticate via active directory on our servers located in our main branch. As you can see, we don't have much to work with.

I showed your post to our servers guy and he was awed. We know what you can make .vbs scripts and get called after the installation, but never something like this.

Comment sellable without contract and without account? (Score 1) 100

the real question is that if i can go to a verizon store and buy one without having an account and without contract for people like me that don't live in the US but sometimes visits.

i know that you eventually will be able to buy it online and unlocked at the apple store, but for example in Venezuela you can't spend more than 400$ over the internet in a year.

Comment We were affected (Score 1) 245

We are currently considering switching AV vendors from Kaspersky (our license renewal is coming soon). So the boss contacted Sophos and they sent a guy yesterday to install a demo and got hit with this bug.

Needless to say the guy was pretty embarrassed.

I like ESET nod32 myself, but it seems that the administrative console is not as good as Kaspersky (K's allows to deploy software, turn off machines, send messages to users and lots of other non-AV stuff we actually need)

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