• @[email protected]
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    5 months ago

    Forced updates of an optional corporate anti-virus designed to immediately detect and distribute information on threats should be illegal?

    Or is this just an unrelated comment?

    • Angry_Autist (he/him)
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      25 months ago

      You really don’t understand how many millions of hours of human effort force updates have destroyed.

      Yes, there should always be, ESPECIALLY IN CORPORATE ENVIRONMENTS, a point where the client can vet and approve the update.

      This recent Crowdstrike problem is proof of it. You LITERALLY witnessed proof as 1/4 of the world basically shut down for the day. This would have been avoided in many cases if the update was vetted by the local IT teams.

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        25 months ago

        So CrowdStrike shouldn’t allow real time threat protection? That’s what caused the issue. It needs to update its threat library to do deal with any day 1 attacks. It’s one of the main reasons it’s used