Web News: Microsoft + Antivirus = Microvirus

Lokie · 28-July-04, 09:21 PM

Details of Microsoft antivirus software leak out

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	An executive of Microsoft in France divulged on Wednesday some of the software maker's plans for its highly anticipated entry into the antivirus software market. A standalone antivirus product will be built from tools the company inherited through its 2003 acquisitions of GeCad and Pelican Software, according to a report published in CNET News.com's sister publication, ZDNet France, citing the technical head of Microsoft's security project in that country, Nicolas Mirail. Microsoft representatives in the United States refused to comment on functional elements or a potential production time frame for the antivirus package.

Darksamurai · 29-July-04, 04:14 AM

WOW!

Microsoft is going to charge people to keep their own software from being exploited?

What a surprise...

SexyPants · 29-July-04, 11:25 AM

Microsoft: Oh man, there's a security hole. That'll be a lot of code.....eh just tell the anti-virus guys.

FoeHammer · 29-July-04, 11:41 AM

Just what Micro$oft needs: more excuses to make shoddy software, so they can sell you the fix later.

I think a may have a book of business ethics around here somewhere to mail to Bill Gates.

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29-July-04, 04:14 AM		#2 (permalink)
Darksamurai Sam-Hoe-rai N-Hoe-mad	WOW! Microsoft is going to charge people to keep their own software from being exploited? What a surprise...

29-July-04, 11:25 AM		#3 (permalink)
SexyPants 5-Hoe-1 Jeans	Microsoft: Oh man, there's a security hole. That'll be a lot of code.....eh just tell the anti-virus guys.

29-July-04, 11:41 AM		#4 (permalink)
FoeHammer P-Hoe-lice	Just what Micro$oft needs: more excuses to make shoddy software, so they can sell you the fix later. I think a may have a book of business ethics around here somewhere to mail to Bill Gates.