Would You Trust A Security Report That Was Trying To Sell Ads?
from the just-wondering dept
Yes, advertising is everywhere these days, and it's only going to get worse. The latest is that a security firm who is going to release a report on a well publicized security flaw is offering to sell advertising in that report. It's not really that surprising, but it may raise questions about how trustworthy the report is. The firm now has every incentive to make the analysis more sensational in an effort to drive more impressions.
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the lat antivirus progrom i used with ads showed itself to be a virus along with IE and yaoo toolbar.
not files in thosedirectorys but the exe files themselves. oh, yeh, and that was on a system that i had just formated and reinstalled the OS.
(thx Norton)
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And on topic, I can't really blame them for putting in advertising, its more the hyping up that annoys me, these "security firms" like to make their own news, just like some popular UK Newspaper journalists sneaking a box marked "bomb" into Parliament ... when companies/newpapers start making their own breaking-super-important-life-altering-news you know its not with the time to read.
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Of course I would
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