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Newish job dropped a lot of money on Exagrid and they are sending the team to the Astros/Redsox game with an executive suite. Vendor perks are new to me and I’m in awe. Free poo poo coming at us left and right.
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May 24, 2018 17:04
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George H.W. oval office posted:Newish job dropped a lot of money on Exagrid and they are sending the team to the Astros/Redsox game with an executive suite. This is what lobbying feels like to politicians and other government officials FYI.
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CLAM DOWN posted:I moved my whole home lab to Azure once I started getting an MSDN account and that sweet sweet monthly credit. Azure rules Same here, I just wish we had $300 or $250 a month. I’m always a bit over 
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May 24, 2018 17:58
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George H.W. oval office posted:Newish job dropped a lot of money on Exagrid and they are sending the team to the Astros/Redsox game with an executive suite. If a concert is coming up you want to see hit up your vendors for tickets. Just sort by money spent and text your rep. "Hey did you hear <terrible band> is in town?" It felt a little wrong to see Nine Inch Nails from box seats. Not so wrong I didn't show up and drink their booze though. (Note: It felt exactly right to see Slayer from the pit. Same rep.)
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May 24, 2018 18:06
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Sepist posted:What's the best antivirus? A typewriter.
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H110Hawk posted:If a concert is coming up you want to see hit up your vendors for tickets. Just sort by money spent and text your rep. "Hey did you hear <terrible band> is in town?" Can confirm, that's the best way to see a concert (guaranteed free tickets  ). And as I'm getting older, the box (away from the moshpit), looks very appealing with its free booze.
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May 24, 2018 18:50
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Sepist posted:What's the best antivirus?
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May 24, 2018 18:51
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MC Fruit Stripe posted:I'm nostalgic for 15 years ago when people would have earnest fights about this question. I was an AVG man, myself. NOD32 or gtfo
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May 24, 2018 18:52
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Didn't Avast! take up a ton of system resources or something?
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May 24, 2018 18:54
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Inspector_666 posted:NOD32 or gtfo
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May 24, 2018 18:59
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Honestly I think you should go with McAfee, plus ePO for added value.
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May 24, 2018 18:59
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 Only people bad with computers get computer viruses *24 Hours later* "Hey guys how do I get rid of a cryptolocker???"
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May 24, 2018 19:08
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Vargatron posted:
My experience is they usually ask how to buy bitcoins before they reveal they got cryptolockerd.
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May 24, 2018 19:18
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Zil posted:My experience is they usually ask how to buy bitcoins before they reveal they got cryptolockerd. True enough. Sorry I was trying to go old school on that one.
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dogstile posted:Sometimes I look at the jobs the warehouse guys get sent out on and figure i'd be happier moving stuff, then i realise how abysmally they get paid and I continue pressing buttons Same, more or less. Sepist posted:What's the best antivirus? I may be legally obligated to say Trend Micro for continued employment reasons. Let me check my contract. Necronomicon posted:Being on Linux. Everybody knows Macs don't get viruses. ChubbyThePhat posted:A hammer. ... repeatedly to the crotch of anyone caught writing malware. I like it. Those motherfuckers have cost me a lot of time over the years, for no good reason.
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May 24, 2018 20:45
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Sepist posted:What's the best antivirus? 
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But what's the best antivirus for Android?!
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Sudden Loud Noise posted:But what's the best antivirus for Android?!
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Antivirus is old hat. Now the question is which EDR solution is the least miserable.
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May 24, 2018 21:49
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Necronomicon posted:Being on Linux. Sophos will sell you AV for Linux (and AIX, HPUX and Solaris though those are all maintenance mode only since I left  )
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May 24, 2018 22:15
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feedmegin posted:Sophos will sell you AV for Linux What does it actually do
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May 24, 2018 22:28
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Darchangel posted:Everybody knows Macs don't get viruses. A year in university tech support will teach you the exact opposite. I think it must be all of the stupid file-sharing stuff college kids used to be into.
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Methanar posted:What does it actually do Detect Windows viruses, mostly. Handy if eg you have a fileserver running Samba and Windows clients.
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feedmegin posted:Detect Windows viruses, mostly. Handy if eg you have a fileserver running Samba and Windows clients. does it actually work better than clam?
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Necronomicon posted:A year in university tech support will teach you the exact opposite. I think it must be all of the stupid file-sharing stuff college kids used to be into. How the hell do you get a Virus on a Mac?
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Tab8715 posted:How the hell do you get a Virus on a Mac? This isn't 2004, Mac adoption has been at significant levels for years now. The only reason macs got the rep for not getting viruses is that most people didn't BOTHER to write viruses for the mac, not because they were more secure. Speaking as someone who did tech support for Apple back in the mid 2000's.
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May 24, 2018 22:55
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Tab8715 posted:How the hell do you get a Virus on a Mac? Mostly you get morons who install Trojans. Anything that actually does any damage has to be OK'd by an admin, but since almost everyone runs as an admin and will type in their password when prompted by anything, just so they can get back to porn surfing... At least you can't just turn off the elevation notices (easily), and you have to type a password, rather than just clicking "OK", like some other OSes.
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Necronomicon posted:Being on Linux. Brother, do you have too many cores or ram on your Linux? System too responsive? Good news! Symantec has a product for you.
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chin up everything sucks posted:This isn't 2004, Mac adoption has been at significant levels for years now. The only reason macs got the rep for not getting viruses is that most people didn't BOTHER to write viruses for the mac, not because they were more secure. Once upon a time I was a certified Apple Macintosh Hardware Tech. Back in ‘05 and saw virus once out of a thousand tickets. Maybe or maybe it’s due to market penetration but it sure as hell seems like there’s something unique around Linux or OS X that prevents the awful Malware, Virus, etc. that hit Windows in the 90s, 2000s.
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Tab8715 posted:it sure as hell seems like there’s something unique around Linux or OS X that prevents the awful Malware, Virus, etc. that hit Windows in the 90s, 2000s. I think it's more the design of boundaries within the OS. You pretty much need root.
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Tab8715 posted:Once upon a time I was a certified Apple Macintosh Hardware Tech. Back in ‘05 and saw virus once out of a thousand tickets. Oh it was a Big loving Deal when we found a virus on a mac back then. It IS hard to make an effective virus/trojan for a mac - but true viruses are rare these days. People prefer botnets, malware, coin-miners and crypto-lockers over random destruction.
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nullfunction posted:I think it's more the design of boundaries within the OS. You pretty much need root. That’s pretty much it. Same as with most *nix Systems, more or less.
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Tab8715 posted:Once upon a time I was a certified Apple Macintosh Hardware Tech. Back in ‘05 and saw virus once out of a thousand tickets. Er yeah, the last time Macs actually topped 10% of global computer sales was back around 1988, and were on a continuous decline in marketshare from then up til 2006 (when it had fallen to 2%, but before the increased sales from the x86 switchover started in earnest). Since then, Macs have only managed to claw their way back to the pitiful share they had in 1992 - about 7.5%. The total amount of Macs sold from 1984 introduction all the way to the end of 2017 was 232 million. 240 million Windows computers were sold in 2017 alone. That's the sheer scale of difference in use we're talking about when it comes to macs. There's several billion Windows computers out there and online, versus less than a quarter billion Macs if all of them ever made were currently connected, it's a massive effect on whether you're going to bother to write malware, even if you just wanted to write malware for fun you'd need a Mac to test it on. chin up everything sucks posted:This isn't 2004, Mac adoption has been at significant levels for years now. Haha, nope. Still a tiny minority, never been anything but that and never will be. It is quite frankly a ton more likely that Linux proper becomes the majority user OS than that Macs will ever claw their way to say, a quarter of the market. chin up everything sucks posted:It IS hard to make an effective virus/trojan for a mac - but true viruses are rare these days. People prefer botnets, malware, coin-miners and crypto-lockers over random destruction. It's just as hard to do it for Windows, but again with so many more people using them there's way more chances to do so. Classic Mac OS was even a good deal less robust than contemporary Windows systems were, but the sheer lack of users made it hard to keep malware spreading. fishmech fucked around with this message at 23:57 on May 24, 2018 |
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fishmech posted:Haha, nope. Still a tiny minority, never been anything but that and never will be. It is quite frankly a ton more likely that Linux proper becomes the majority user OS than that Macs will ever claw their way to say, a quarter of the market. Somebody is living in the past. Mac's are hovering around 20% of the market in general, and are seen as status symbols these days. My previous job was a 100% mac enviroment, my new one has about 30% of the employees on macs. Linux will never see general adoption, it requires too much knowledge to use easily, and the average computer user doesn't WANT to have to know anything to use their computer.
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chin up everything sucks posted:Somebody is living in the past. Mac's are hovering around 20% of the market in general This is entirely incorrect. In 2017, Apple sold 19.66 million Macs. This places them at 7.6% of the market, which was 259.52 million computers. chin up everything sucks posted:My previous job was a 100% mac enviroment, my new one has about 30% of the employees on macs. Your jobs are massive outliers. The point is that Macs are definitely not big. The very absurdity of Linux on the desktop is quite the point.
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Have you been to a tech conference lately? it's probably 50% Macs. If the techs are getting Macs then you know the sales guys and the managers are getting Macs too.
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One of our clients fell for a spoofed email and sent > 50k to "Our CFO Ms. Lisa" and was mad at us. 
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jaegerx posted:Have you been to a tech conference lately? it's probably 50% Macs. That's really quite meaningless, we have the sales figures for computers going back decades. Like, do you think everybody's just been lying in their computer sales to fake Mac sales being a very low percent of the market, or what?
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