{"id":576,"date":"2008-11-19T21:52:21","date_gmt":"2008-11-19T21:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=576"},"modified":"2008-11-19T21:52:21","modified_gmt":"2008-11-19T21:52:21","slug":"whore-they-trying-to-put-out-of-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/whore-they-trying-to-put-out-of-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Who&#8217;re they trying to put out of business?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/technology\/7737520.stm\">Microsoft is planning to offer free anti-virus software<\/a>.\u00a0 It&#8217;s about time they started offering value for money.\u00a0 But you&#8217;ve got to wonder if their motivation is altruistic.\u00a0 Maybe they want to put pressure on Norton or others.\u00a0 And maybe the free version will be as buggy as their operating system has been over the past decades.\u00a0 Will it in fact provide an open avenue for hackers? Or even a back-door for Microsoft?<\/p>\n<p>If you want security, start with a linux system.\u00a0 Linux is customised to each machine so it&#8217;s more difficult to hack.\u00a0 And it&#8217;s less interesting for hackers to hack.\u00a0 Oh, and its free &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft is planning to offer free anti-virus software.\u00a0 It&#8217;s about time they started offering value for money.\u00a0 But you&#8217;ve got to wonder if their motivation is altruistic.\u00a0 Maybe they want to put pressure on Norton or others.\u00a0 And maybe the free version will be as buggy as their operating system has been over the past &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/whore-they-trying-to-put-out-of-business\/\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Who&#8217;re they trying to put out of business?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ict"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hwcd-9i","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}