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irelephant [he/him]🍭@lemm.ee to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 11 months ago

What popular product do you think is modern day snakeoil?

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What popular product do you think is modern day snakeoil?

irelephant [he/him]🍭@lemm.ee to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 11 months ago
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    Anti virus software. To protect your computer let’s constantly run this software with root privileges!

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      I remember mcAffee webadvisor came preinstalled with a crappy asus vivobook i got when i was younger, i could not delete it, i had to manually remove the files from the programfiles folder but it reinstalled itself every time it updated, the laptop bricked itself recently anyway so it doesn’t matter.

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        That’s when you wipe the os and install linux

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          I run linux on my main pc, but some other people used the laptop.

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      Good endpoint protection doesn’t run with any root privileges.

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