Microsoft Anti-Virus?

Microsoft Anti-Virus?
Kelly Martin, 2005-05-13

Microsoft's announcement that it will enter the AV market next year, with initial trials starting next week, could be a sign of many things to come.

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Microsoft Anti-Virus? 2005-05-13
Anonymous

The ethical part has to worry everyone, how can I trust the OS i'm buying has all the security that i need if the same company sells me another software that addresses (an accepts) the issues their OS has?

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Microsoft Anti-Virus? 2005-05-14
RLD

What you say makes perfect sense. I'm a little surprised MS hasn't done this already. Sell an OS w/all the bells and whistles for $250 and charge $100 a year for contiuous updates. Sell a lessor version of the OS and still charge outh the wazoo for updates.

I can see it now:

xp pro secure . ....

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The ethnic group is called Inuit, Kelly 2005-05-15
Anonymous

"There's an old Canadian saying about a salesman who is so good at sales and marketing that he can "sell ice to an Eskimo" -- and although Eskimo is an outdated term, it doesn't sound the same to replace the text with our respected native Canadian Indians."

s/Eskimo/Inuit/ not "out respected nati...

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Microsoft Anti-Virus? 2005-05-15
Anonymous (2 replies)

I wouldn't jump on the MS Anti Virus just quite yet, does anyone recall it's last attempt at supplying computers with an anti virus solution back in MSDOS 6.x?

What good was it when they never updated it's viral signatures? I think this is more smoke blowing by the Microsoft PR department. They ...

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Microsoft Anti-Virus? 2005-05-16
Anonymous

Yes I remember that well. I was working for McAfee and I recall MS using scan.exe in house rather than using their own MSAV.exe. ...

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Re: Microsoft Anti-Virus? 2009-11-11
Migamix

and this was also back in the day when you had to manually install a TCP/IP stack in order to be able to get on the net, how were you supposed to update your virus profiles, when in many cases there were so few viruses to worry about in the first place, the old MSDOS was not a network based OS, so i...

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Microsoft Anti-Virus? 2005-05-16
Tarun

Most of the non Microsoft applications (Lotus Notes, SAP, inhouse developed applications etc) are usually tested on a particular set of versions of an operating system. There is always a lag between release of a new version of windows and support announcement by the application vendors.

There mi...

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Microsoft Anti-Virus, again?!?! 2005-05-16
Greg Hale

I have been reading about Microsoft's entry into to the anti-virus arena and continue to be surprised that no one examines their last anti-virus entry.

Microsoft bought Central Point Anti-Virus and included it in DOS 6 in 1993. Many people in the anti-virus industry at the time believed that MSA...

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Microsoft Anti-Virus? 2005-05-16
Anonymous

A couple of bold predictions...

1. Microsoft subscription licensing will give more companies the incentive they need to switch to more cost-effective software such as open source products -- particularly small and medium businesses, where the short-term cost of switching to another platform will ...

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Microsoft Anti-Virus? 2005-05-18
Anonymous (1 replies)

Great article Kelly. How much for some of that ice that Billy Gates is sellin'?

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Microsoft Anti-Virus? 2005-05-18
TRD

One thing Microsoft is doing right.... Combining the anti-virus and the anti-spyware into one product.

Whereas other companies are trying to get you to buy two separate solutions by saying the spyware malware is different from the virus malware products....now thats a racket!

Now maybe the oth...

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Microsoft Anti-Virus? UI of Anti-spyware? 2005-05-18
Anonymous (1 replies)

Maybe Microsoft can learn from the GiantAntiSpyware GUI! MSFT left the Giant Software UI virtually unchanged (thank goodness). Now if only they can move some of the good UI elements into other products....

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Re: Microsoft Anti-Virus? UI of Anti-spyware? 2006-05-11
Anonymous

Used giantantispyware to remove spywares from my pc. At the end I was prompted to re-start the pc. Since then i have not been able to re-start my pc. It crashes before it could fully load window 2000 operating system. I am very disappointed....

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Not only netscape.. 2005-05-18
Anonymous

OS/2 -> Windows
Netscape -> Internet Explorer
Google -> Msn Search
Playstation -> Xbox
AV/AS software -> OneCare
Symbian/Palm OS -> Win Pocket PC
Many digital devices -> Win Media center

Please note that in the left columns there are many companies.. in the right one there is just ms..

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Microsoft Anti-Virus? 2005-05-19
Alin

not all businesses are ethical. Microsoft is profit driven so don't expect them to be followers of nice values like morale or ethics.

however, every consumer has the option to make a choice based on his judgement and not on Microsoft's statements. Time will tell. ...

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Microsoft Anti-Virus? 2005-05-25
AAUGH

Microsoft is again doing the Johnny-come-lately thing. Just by announcing an entry into the Anti-Virus market, they have sunk the stock of Symantec. If they can't come up with innovative solutions, then re-engineer other's hard work and package it into Windows. ...

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Death to others.... 2005-08-30
Quimax W

If MS does offer this AV/AS software as part of the OS, I will be willing to bet it will take a LARGE chunk of the consumer market from McAffee & Symantec. End users most often don't know how good or bad the end product is. What they know is that they have it installed, why buy something else?...

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Microsoft Anti-Virus? 2009-06-30
Anonymous

"Since the $2B spyware cottage industry is exclusively a Microsoft problem".
It continues to amaze me that people who obviously do not understand the computing market can write articles for it as though they are experts. Spyware and viruses are written for and appear in every major operating syst...

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