AD NAUSEVM

[ebtb.livejournal.com]

You seem to suffer from the ills I warn my students about: you are too close to your program to see obvious design flaws. Suggest you add some fresh, inexperienced staff to your testing team to increase the naivety level, lest the King continue to parade cluelessly before the populace, sans clothes.

My recent installation of your program was most disappointing. After a full system scan, some tracking cookies were detected. I looked for a way to delete or at least quarantine them, to no avail. Nowhere was there any indication of how to take action.

Yes, I will now read your manual and run the scan again. But don't fool yourselves: if your software is so unintuitive that I can't run a default-option system scan and easily determine how to delete the malware it finds, your software will never make it to prime time, no matter how superior your technology is otherwise. If you had a few less experienced personnel on your evaluation staff, you would already be aware of that.

Dear Luser,

You sound  intellectually superior to me.  Oh, wait. Cookies are just text files and therefore not MALWARE. Too bad your fancy sentence structures don't cover up your ignorance.

Die in a fire,

MB

Comments

[wxgeek.livejournal.com]

I want to strangle CS teachers sometimes.

[yanni85.livejournal.com]

To be fair, if a scan detects anything I would expect to be able to easily figure out how to delete it no matter what it is. Not selected to be deleted by default and explicitly labeled as not-in-the-least critical but if your scan finds them it should also easily delete them for the more paranoid.

Still, the user comes off as an over-intellectual moron even if they do get props for the emperor's new clothes reference.

[gnostalgia.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I was gonna say - he's got kind of a point, aside from the condescending attitude. Why should an antimalware program show you stuff its flagged without offering you a way to do something about it, or clearly marking that it's informative only or something?

[yndy.livejournal.com]

Hey, I used to be a CS teacher - and they sure as hell don't talk that way!
That's a first year would-be English major for sure.

"Suggest you add some fresh, inexperienced staff to your testing team to increase the naivety level, lest the King continue to parade cluelessly before the populace, sans clothes."

If you ever find a CS prof that talks that way, run!

[yndy.livejournal.com]

That has to be the *worst* attempt at intellectualism ever.

Ugh.

[wibbble]

My father-in-law is an English PhD who taught at several universities.

That email could be from him.

So don't think that it stops at first years. :o(

[hopefulnebula]

Reply to the luser saying "Great, when can you start?" Let them sputter and wtf at that.

[politas.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I am thinking likewise. If tracking cookies "aren't malware", then why does an anti-malware program even list them?

[gnostalgia.livejournal.com]

...kind of like Christmas tree lights on the NORAD Santa...just because they're there...?