matthew rutledge

Intego exaggerates Mac virus threat, misinterprets Apple PR to scare you into buying their anti-virus package (Download Squad)

Jun 19th 2009 10:36AM I interviewed for Intego several years ago, in 2003 I believe. I only applied because I was laid off from Apple (during one of their only layoffs) and they were a Mac software company. It was a stuffy, arrogant and mostly French staff transported to a suburban office park in Austin, Texas. They didn't like me, I didn't like them, because I wanted to know specifics about what the software actually did to combat virus, since at the time, there wasn't really a prevailing thought that there were any significant ones on the Mac. They told me at the end I wasn't what they were looking for, which might be refreshingly frank in a very Frankreich way, but I was nonplussed. Got a job offer a week later for a company I ended up really liking and moved back to PC land.