On Tue, 25 Feb 2020 at 06:58, James Knott via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
I came across this today in another list.
https://thehackernews.com/2020/02/windows-defender-atp-linux-android.html
This certainly isn't your father's Microsoft!
Good idea in principle, but tell me about the practise. I don't care how many threat signatures its been trained on: if they're all Windows binaries, how effective will it be on a Linux machine? Another important question is: what information will this be sending home? Microsoft's SOP (Standard Operating Procedure) these days is to incorporate more and more reporting into everything they make. Avoiding this behaviour is one of the reasons I moved to Linux - one of my biggest reasons. It's nice of Hacker News to right a puff piece for Microsoft: it would have been better if they'd actually run the software and looked at its behaviour ... I'm not totally anti-Microsoft, but I still think "guilty until proven innocent" is the correct attitude given their track record. -- Giles https://www.gilesorr.com/ gilesorr@gmail.com