{"id":41,"date":"2009-05-05T10:37:42","date_gmt":"2009-05-05T17:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kai.mactane.org\/blog\/2009\/05\/05\/mcafee-failing-at-security-since-2005\/"},"modified":"2009-05-05T10:39:28","modified_gmt":"2009-05-05T17:39:28","slug":"mcafee-failing-at-security-since-2005","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kagan.mactane.org\/blog\/2009\/05\/05\/mcafee-failing-at-security-since-2005\/","title":{"rendered":"McAfee: Failing at Security Since 2005"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 2005, I was a &#8220;geek for hire&#8221; and did a lot of general troubleshooting for end-users. Including malware removal and general PC tune-ups. One client wanted me to install some software, including McAfee&#8217;s main end-user product at the time&nbsp;&mdash; I don&#8217;t recall the name.<\/p>\n<p>I <em>do<\/em> recall, however, that my head nearly exploded when I found that the product required the user to <em>turn on<\/em> ActiveX&#8230; and not even restrict it to local execution only! I informed the client (with as little ranting as I could) that this was an extremely bad idea, and strongly advised that he get a different security software suite, and ditch the McAfee product as quickly as he could.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.readwriteweb.com\/archives\/mcafee_enabling_malware_distribution_and_fraud.php\">It seems that McAfee has not improved their security practices since then.<\/a> People are saying that a security company should know better. I agree, but I&#8217;m not all that surprised; this just looks like more of the same stuff I saw from them back in &#8217;05.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 2005, I was a &#8220;geek for hire&#8221; and did a lot of general troubleshooting for end-users. Including malware removal and general PC tune-ups. One client wanted me to install some software, including McAfee&#8217;s main end-user product at the time&nbsp;&mdash; I don&#8217;t recall the name. I do recall, however, that my head nearly exploded [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[39,20,40,41,30],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kagan.mactane.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kagan.mactane.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kagan.mactane.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kagan.mactane.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kagan.mactane.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kagan.mactane.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42,"href":"https:\/\/kagan.mactane.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions\/42"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kagan.mactane.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kagan.mactane.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kagan.mactane.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}