Month: August 2006

Why the Top-Selling Antivirus Programs Aren't the Best. The top three antivirus programs — from Symantec, McAfee, and Trend Micro — are less likely to detect new viruses and worms than less popular programs, because virus writers specifically test their work against those programs: On Wednesday, the general manager of Australia's Computer Emergency Response Team… Continue reading Why the Top-Selling Antivirus Programs Aren't the Best

Open Source Licenses are Obsolete. By tim Last week at OSCON, I made the seemingly controversial statement “Open Source Licenses Are Obsolete. During the Q&A period, Michael Tiemann of Red Hat and the Open Source Initiative took issue with my statement, pointing out just how much value open source licenses have created. I don't know… Continue reading Open Source Licenses are Obsolete

Hosting providers, meet reality check. Around here, we’ve been hosting projects on the web for the longest time. However for the last couple of years most of our development has been rails-centric, and hosting providers haven’t been helping at all. Like us, there are many companies out there who are using rails to deploy applications… Continue reading Hosting providers, meet reality check

Security Model Analysis of Windows Vista. Matthew Conover, a security researcher over at Symantec, has published a new paper on the “Analysis of the Windows Vista Security Model“. His paper provides an in-depth technical assessment of the security improvements implemented in Windows Vista, focusing primarily on the areas of User Account Protection and User Interface… Continue reading Security Model Analysis of Windows Vista