F-Secure Gets Called Out On Mobile Virus FUD
from the are-your-BS-definitions-up-to-date? dept
Finnish anti-virus firm F-Secure has developed quite a reputation -- not necessarily for their products, but because of the ridiculous amount of hype they've spun regarding the largely theoretical threat of mobile malware and viruses. Other vendors and smartphone OS developers have made fairly general comments that the actual threat has been overhyped, but now one of the company's rivals has called it out by name, claiming F-Secure has created a market for their product through their incessant fear-mongering. An F-Secure exec, unsurprisingly, denies the claim, but perhaps he hasn't been at the company long enough to remember the many various instances it's done exactly that. The truth remains that the risk of infection by a mobile virus is extremely low, while their potential for damage is limited by many factors. The F-Secure guy says he can't understand why anything they've done is bad for business, which is hardly surprising, really -- but creating a market that's based only on irrational fear your company whips up really isn't a great plan for long-term success.
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F-Secure Gets Called Out On Mobile Virus FUD
Hmm, it seems to work for Americas war on drugs.
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Re: F-Secure Gets Called Out On Mobile Virus FUD
There has been no success in the war on drugs. The problem gets worse every day | month | year.
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Lawsuit?
Other vendors and smartphone OS developers have made fairly general comments that the actual threat has been overhyped, but now one of the company's rivals has called it out by name, claiming F-Secure has created a market for their product through their incessant fear-mongering. An F-Secure exec, unsurprisingly, denies the claim, but perhaps he hasn't been at the company long enough to remember the many various instances it's done exactly that.
So in about six months (or however long it takes them to realize they aren't making any money) F-Secure is gonna sue that rival that called them out.
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If I didn't know better I'd think they were part of Homeland Security.
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F-Secure has a product?
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If I didn't know better I'd think they were part of the global warming crowd.
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Re:
The previous post was a blatant troll. Waste time replying at your own risk.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_troll
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read the end of the article
it's hard to take ca's claims that f-secure is making mobile malware out to be a huge risk when f-secure is quoted by the media as saying the opposite...
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America's "war on drugs" is a myth
There are plenty of "drug lords" that contribute lots of money to US politicians and other government officials so that they look the other way and allow the flows of drugs to continue unabated.
It would take a lot of guts for any politician to try to do anything significant to go against these forces. The last one to seriously try was Robert F. Kennedy and we all know what happened to him.
Every once in a while the Feds need to make a big bust just to make the public think they are really trying to stem the flow. Most of the law enforcement activity is is aimed at users rather than the suppliers, which has little if any effect other than to put a lot of small dealers and users in prison.
By de-criminalizing drugs and treating them as we do alcohol, you would remove most of the profit and then the drug pushers would have to find something else to do.
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free anti virus
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Huh
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