Rüppell's griffon vulture

[guppiecat]

Vultures are known as scavengers or opportunistic feeders. This one just caught a bug*.

Speaking of opportunistic vultures and bugs, you should really update (or stop using) Symantec/Norton Antivirus immediately. Not tonight, not tomorrow, but right now. Technical details here: http://googleprojectzero.blogspot.fr/2016/06/how-to-compromise-enterprise-endpoint.html .

* OK, a mealworm is not technically a bug, but I’d like to see you find a more apt photo on short notice.

Originally posted at stories.starmind.org.

Comments

[davidschroth.livejournal.com]

Well, now I know why my Norton A/V product was forcibly updated earlier this week...

Personally, I think these kinds of problems are inherent in the Wintel/Lintel architecture, but sloppy design/implementation makes it much worse.

[guppiecat]

Yes, it is inherent in the Wintel/Lintel architecture because those operating systems are market driven (different markets, but same effect) so are lower quality in terms of both design and implementation than more traditional operating systems. For what it's worth, Apple is playing that game now, so they have similar issues. (The mach kernel has some pretty awful design choices if I've been told correctly.)

All that said, Symantec has a historically *terrible* history of design across all of their product lines. If you can, I'd suggest relying on something else to protect your system.