Posts by hungover

Quote: Originally Posted by AndreiD  Read this paper pls! The net is abundant of such papers or publications regarding AV software vulnerabilities and exploits.   Your second paragraph captures a...

Quote: Originally Posted by MacBook Pro  Here is a quick, easy list of 47 known exploits of various anti-malware software implementations, in particular this is the results of a search for "Sophos" which offers a well...

Quote: Originally Posted by AndreiD  Not only this but people forget that AV software just like any kind of software has it's own vunerabilities that can be exploited. That's one of the reason i don't encourage AV on...

Quote: Originally Posted by SolipsismX  Win7 has less infections than WinXP but there are more viruses for Windows than ever before. There hasn't been a drop in the number of viruses   With out the aid of a...

To be honest I am surprised that Apple managed to make such misleading "virus" claims for such a long time.   The earlier campaigns that mentioned the 114000 windows viruses were disingenuous in the extreme. In one sentence...

Quote: Originally Posted by Gatorguy  IDC not only projects Android as the mobile OS leader they predict Android to be the overall number one OS in the world by 2016, surpassing Microsoft Windows PC numbers....

I  have no idea how much is indeed fud but do you have any evidence to substantiate your claim that they make 40% profit, can you even explain what they are making 40% profit on?   The impression that i get from elsewhere...

Quote: Originally Posted by ascii  Seems a bit steep for an advertising breach. Maybe $100k or so would be more reasonable, specially given the term they used was technically correct. The size of the fine might...

Quote: Originally Posted by asdasd  The subsidies issue is a non-issue, iPhone users pay for more expensive plans and use more data earning close to $2000 per iPhone customer. In the long term iphone prices will be...

Quote: Originally Posted by DrDoppio    The market as a whole is growing, so if Android grows at a slower rate it will lose market share. I also don't think dramatic changes in smartphones are necessary to...