Avast acquires rival AVG for $1.3B to create a security software giant

Re:Avast acquires rival AVG for $1.3B to create a security s... by ommunist on Thursday July 07, 2016 @08:09AM (#12048786)

Bejesus! One should assess environmental impact of CPU cycles wasted on antivirus protection. And based on result of such research - ban operation systems, which architecture allows execution of malware. Yes, a large market of "security" software will be lost. But this will be for good.

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Re:Avast acquires rival AVG for $1.3B to create a security s... by freehunter on Thursday July 07, 2016 @09:34AM (#12049180)

So we should ban Linux, Mac, BSD, Android, iOS, and Windows... what's left? BeOS? Maybe we should assess the CPU cycles wasted by trolls on the Internet and band anyone who doesn't think about their comment for five seconds before posting...?

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Re:Avast acquires rival AVG for $1.3B to create a security s... by ommunist on Thursday July 07, 2016 @01:01PM (#12050594)

iOS.

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Re:Avast acquires rival AVG for $1.3B to create a security s... by gregmac on Thursday July 07, 2016 @09:30AM (#12049161)

> ban operation systems, which architecture allows execution of malware

What's the difference, in architectural terms, between malware and non-malware software?

Or are you perhaps suggesting that we should go to a restricted, walled-garden world with a company like Apple as the gatekeeper that checks and approves any piece of software that might be allowed to run on the hardware you are basically renting from them?

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Re:Avast acquires rival AVG for $1.3B to create a security s... by zyx321 on Thursday July 07, 2016 @10:41AM (#12049586)

>ban operation systems, which architecture allows execution of malware

Ban everything except iPads?

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Re:Avast acquires rival AVG for $1.3B to create a security s... by ommunist on Thursday July 07, 2016 @12:59PM (#12050578)

You nailed it!

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