Check this article by Richard Stallman…
“Microsoft would have us believe that helping your neighbour is the moral equivalent of attacking a ship.”
I like Richard’s take on piracy.
Archive for July, 2008
Ahoy Maties!
July 7th, 2008Cave-in down at the old AV Mill!
July 7th, 2008Well, I hated to hear it, but apparently AVG Free caved-in to pressure this morning and changed the way their Linkscanner Pro software operates.
Techworld article here.
Nothing in the press-release section on GriSoft’s website but according to the Techworld article, they’ve apparently moved to a blacklist approach instead of real-time scanning of links.
Well… bad guys won this one. Apparently knowing how many times websites have served up malware-infected pages is way more important than actually doing anything useful about it. Dang shame…
