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What popular product do you think is modern day snakeoil? (lemm.ee)

submitted 5 months ago by Irelephant@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 69 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Anti virus software. To protect your computer let's constantly run this software with root privileges!

[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 16 points 5 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] photonic_sorcerer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That's when you wipe the os and install linux

[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 3 points 5 months ago

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

[–] SupraMario@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

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