I need Security Information
Lately I have had a lot of posts about security. This is because the number one killer of your PC is software other than your OS. Software like badly designed programs, programs loaded incorrectly, programs that are incompatible, viruses, spyware and list goes on. Hardware failure is rarely a problem on a PC, 90 percent of all PC problems are do to bad software.
Where I am going with this is bad software. My mother called her IT person last night (me) to ask how to turn off her virus protection. Immediately my mind started screaming, Danger, Will Robinson, Danger. Which lead me to the question, “Mom, why would you turn off your virus protection?” Apparently she was loading “Quickbooks” by Intuit and it will not load with the virus protection on.
Badly designed program, is my response to Intuit. I assume Quickbooks is manipulating a Microsoft file that has known vulnerabilities and has you turn off the virus protection so it won’t get detected as a virus. Am I right, am I wrong, and is there other popular software that has you turn off your virus protection? If there is actually anyone who reads my blogs please post comments and I will do more investigating.
- I am looking for information about other software that has you turn off virus protection
- any software engineer who wants to justify this action
- security risks and hacks from doing this
- and what files are being manipulated
Please, Please, Please, Please, Please, Please, Please, Please, Please, Please, Please post.
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3 opinions for I need Security Information
Edward Beck
Jun 7, 2006 at 3:09 pm
A little late but I am reading them and loving what I see so far. Very informative, and I plan to go through the rest. Forgive me if I reply to an earlier post (I was curious as to why no one else had replied).
Cheers
Edward Beck
Jun 7, 2006 at 5:33 pm
Quicken is a special beast. I can think of others, refusing to follow the XP/2000+ conventions that still insist on creating root level folders. INtuit actually does install spyware - at least Spyware Dr and other tools say so on my mom’s PC (I get those calls too…). It contains a certificate and plays the charade that this is validation of the purchased software. Probably why it wants AV/SW tools turned off - so it can install. Not really poor programming in this case, but there are many out there I agree.
Aaron
Jun 9, 2006 at 10:17 am
I think more recent Q software is different. It’s been a few years since I used it though.
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