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Would You Trust A Security Report That Was Trying To Sell Ads?
from the just-wondering dept
Yes, advertising is everywhere these days, and it's only going to get worse. The latest is that a security firm who is going to release a report on a well publicized security flaw is offering to sell advertising in that report. It's not really that surprising, but it may raise questions about how trustworthy the report is. The firm now has every incentive to make the analysis more sensational in an effort to drive more impressions.
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let them sell ad space in the report. it just takes away from their credability. especially if they advert a program (e.g. norton av) to catch the issue in a particular heuristic mode--and it doesn't (but the norton said it would), then it's HexView that gets burned for doing it.
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Why not?
Yes I could as long our personal files are not on the add..I mean we buy this stuff to protect our home or the other important things in life..What is between the costumers and the company is simply should be keep in private.
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Ironic
Pot Kettle...
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And who's calling the pot black?
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Whatever
Ads in antivirus i dont trust them so no i wouldnt.
the lat antivirus progrom i used with ads showed itself to be a virus along with IE and yaoo toolbar.
not files in thosedirectorys but the exe files themselves. oh, yeh, and that was on a system that i had just formated and reinstalled the OS.
(thx Norton)
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Huh?
And on topic, I can't really blame them for putting in advertising, its more the hyping up that annoys me, these "security firms" like to make their own news, just like some popular UK Newspaper journalists sneaking a box marked "bomb" into Parliament ... when companies/newpapers start making their own breaking-super-important-life-altering-news you know its not with the time to read.
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I wouldn't trust it
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Of course I would
Advertising is one way to make money. That's why there's an ad right below your article asking if you trust someone selling ads.
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Security advertising
Well the issue with the security company trying to sell ad is not to far fetched, its the way to go these days and everyone is able to do this...So it does not surprise me ... Oh by the way valentines is coming up dont I know we all wanna splurge!? but dont forget to search for good deals try cheapvalentineroses.com under flowers
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Re: Security advertising
Ads! Maybe this in itself is worth a new article!
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Re: Security advertising
well publicized security flaws eh. Seems there been a lot of those recently. Is anything really secure totally?
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