{"id":3146,"date":"2017-02-05T13:23:05","date_gmt":"2017-02-05T18:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5212sec001sp2017\/?p=3146"},"modified":"2017-02-05T13:23:05","modified_gmt":"2017-02-05T18:23:05","slug":"anti-virus-software-is-just-a-terrible-idea-warns-former-mozilla-engineer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5212sec001sp2017\/2017\/02\/05\/anti-virus-software-is-just-a-terrible-idea-warns-former-mozilla-engineer\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti-virus software is just a terrible idea, warns former Mozilla engineer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a claim I find hard to believe, but worth investigating further for the sake of curiosity. Anti-virus has been for years the primary or essential way for PC\/Mac owners to protect their devices. Even though not sufficient, but anti-virus represents the basic step for regular computer users and large corporations to implement in terms of IT security.<\/p>\n<p>According to an alternative study, anti-viruses maybe well overrated. This is what Ars Technica\u2019s Robert O\u2019Callahan, who is a former Mozilla engineer\u00a0explains in this article. O\u2019Callahan continues to add the best solution in place of anti-virus is Microsoft\u2019s Windows defenders if user(s) keeps updating Windows 10 regularly, unless you are on Windows XP or something, where even he admits you might need some third-part help. He recommends that anti-virus vendors are terrible and not to buy them. This report deserves some attentions and further studies to ensure if it\u2019s founded. Otherwise, this could be catastrophic if many choose to believe this claim.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/technology\/tech-news-technology\/former-mozilla-engineer-dont-use-third-party-antivirus-software\/\">http:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/technology\/tech-news-technology\/former-mozilla-engineer-dont-use-third-party-antivirus-software\/<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a claim I find hard to believe, but worth investigating further for the sake of curiosity. Anti-virus has been for years the primary or essential way for PC\/Mac owners to protect their devices. Even though not sufficient, but anti-virus represents the basic step for regular computer users and large corporations to implement in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11666,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[715219],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3146","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-week-03-it-administrative-controls","7":"entry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8j0Bl-OK","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5212sec001sp2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5212sec001sp2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5212sec001sp2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5212sec001sp2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11666"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5212sec001sp2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3146"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5212sec001sp2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3147,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5212sec001sp2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3146\/revisions\/3147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5212sec001sp2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5212sec001sp2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5212sec001sp2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}