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From: Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu (Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu) Subject: MS Anti Virus? On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 15:53:45 PDT, Andre Ludwig <andre.ludwig@...il.com> said: > Asked if that would hurt sales of competing products, such as Network > Associates' McAfee and Symantec's Norton family of products, Nash said > that Microsoft said that it would sell its anti-virus program as a > separate product from Windows, rather than including it in Windows. <paranoia mode=full> I can see it now - there's an undocumented API (Gasp! Shock!) in Windows, which interfaces from Windows to MS/AV. The gotcha is that the next service pack or hotfix from MS doesn't actually fix the problem - it's merely a data file that Windows pipes out the API to MS/VA saying "Here's the hole, guard against it..." Then the ad campaign would start: "MS/AV catches 100% of the known security issues, while Symantec and McAffee only catch 75%...." <paranoia mode=normal> Naah.. They'd never use an undocumented API to benefit their product at the expense of the competition, would they? ;) -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 226 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/attachments/20040617/7c251c92/attachment.bin
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