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 CajunTekInsane CajunPremium,MVM
join:2003-08-08
Arlington, TX
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| reply to eburger68
Re: Sunbelt Adjusts WhenU Detections Eric,
I think the biggest problem here is that WhenU is still a bad company with many bad products.. and singling out some as not so bad is not a good thing..
The other bad thing is this, you have had to spend many hours of your very valuable time defending this action. I wish you could have spent it working on IE-spyad, or the helping Sunbelt develope fixes for more serious malware, or even researching other rogueware...
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| MerlynTech:
said by CajunTek:I think the biggest problem here is that WhenU is still a bad company with many bad products.. and singling out some as not so bad is not a good thing.. Well, this is essentially the same "because-it's-WhenU" argument that numerous other people have alrady made in this thread and which I have already responded to at length several times. Rather than rehash my responses yet again, let me simply point you to those earlier responses.
said by CajunTek:The other bad thing is this, you have had to spend many hours of your very valuable time defending this action. I wish you could have spent it working on IE-spyad, or the helping Sunbelt develope fixes for more serious malware, or even researching other rogueware... I don't especially enjoy doing this, and I'm certainly no fan of WhenU. The decision was a tough one -- not pleasant or easy by any means. And, yes, I would much rather have spent my weekend doing something else. But the job had to be done, as unpleasant and frustrating as it might have been.
Also, if you look back through this thread and disregard the petty sniping and other such nonsense, you'll actually find a useful discussion between me and others (including critics) of some of the more substantive and knotty issues currently surrounding anti-spyware programs and how they detect and present potential threats to users. I do enjoy those kinds of discussions, as the topics and issues involved are my "bread-and-butter," so to be speak -- the kinds of problems I mull over endlessly.
So, I would hardly consider this thread a complete waste -- far from it.
Best,
Eric L. Howes
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Microsoft MVP
Sunbelt Software Consultant
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