Microsoft Brings Defender Antivirus for Linux, Coming Soon for Android and iOS
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!
On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 5:58 AM 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!
Most definitely it isn't - - - - they didn't used to require a key stroke logger where the information is owned by M$ - - - - funny the insights that occur when your clients are forced to share everything with you!
| From: James Knott via talk <talk@gtalug.org> | https://thehackernews.com/2020/02/windows-defender-atp-linux-android.html Hmm. That website has hijacked the name of <https://news.ycombinator.com/news> It has been called "Hacker News" for a long long time. A useful site too.
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
On 2020-02-27 02:04 PM, Giles Orr via talk wrote:
I'm not totally anti-Microsoft, but I still think "guilty until proven innocent" is the correct attitude given their track record.
Well, they've certainly changed since Bill & Steve left. After all, they're now including Linux with Windows 10.
On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 03:16:37PM -0500, James Knott via talk wrote:
Well, they've certainly changed since Bill & Steve left. After all, they're now including Linux with Windows 10.
Not included. You have to enable support and then download it from the windows store. Almost included but not quite. -- Len Sorensen
On Thu, 27 Feb 2020 16:50:07 -0500 Lennart Sorensen via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 03:16:37PM -0500, James Knott via talk wrote:
Well, they've certainly changed since Bill & Steve left. After all, they're now including Linux with Windows 10.
Not included. You have to enable support and then download it from the windows store. Almost included but not quite.
and... Outlook.com does not manage their abuse, they consider themselves a "bullet proof" spammer service, more so for their corporate clients whom frequently send out bulk email from noreply@ and with no verification of submitted email addresses. Microsoft = Evil Even though Google revoked their policy of "do not evil" at least they do not spam and they manage their abuse effectively. my 1c Andre
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