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December 2, 2008
UPDATED: Apple to Users: Double Up on Prophylactics
The Register on an Apple technical note that may have been written while high:
“Apple goes further than just recommending the use of one scanner to advise the use of multiple tools. ‘Apple encourages the widespread use of multiple anti-virus utilities so that virus programmers have more than one application to circumvent, thus making the whole virus writing process more difficult,’ it said.
“Quite aside from the expense, the use of multiple anti-virus scanners could affect system performance and smacks of overkill. Users who use one anti-virus scanner, a personal firewall and keeping up to date with patching would be safer than just relying on two anti-virus scanners to bail them out of trouble, according to general security best-practice.
“Using multiple scanners on mail gateways and servers makes sense, but on the desktop the advice is a lot more questionable.”
The news people will latch on to is that Cupertino itself is recommending the use of AV software, but the thought of going beyond that recommendation to suggest people double up and run two AV apps? Maybe Norton, Intego and McAfee wrote checks in identical amounts.
Alternately, as was pointed out by a colleague, maybe Apple meant it would be good to have more than one antivirus product out on the market. You know … let one hundred viruses blossom and let one hundred antivirus solutions contend.
UPDATE:_ Awww … Apple pulled the page because it was “old and outdated,” which is odd considering WaPo’s Brian Krebs, who noticed it in the first place, said it went up on 11/21.
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