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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0406170449370.2034@suse.bluegenesis.com>
From: todd at hostopia.com (Todd Burroughs)
Subject: MS Anti Virus?

They are planning to get into a market that gaurds against the failures
in their own product.  I don't like this, as it seems that they are going
to be in a position to intentionally make holes that their "anti-virus"
software will fix.  If we had a more competitive market in this type of
software there would be no market for AV software and the AV companies
would be making better operating systems.  Remember, Microsoft is a
marketing company and they are very good at it and very powerful.

Educate your friends and family.  Unfortunately, there isn't much choice
right now, but someone will do for Linux (or *BSD) what Apple has done.
If Apple was smart, they would make an OS for PCs.  Maybe they will...

It's sad that we are wasting so much resources on what should be a
non-problem.

Todd Burroughs
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On Wed, 16 Jun 2004, Chris Cappuccio wrote:

> I hate to say this, but I don't think Microsoft software could be any
> worse than Symantec...
>
> Andre Ludwig [andre.ludwig@...il.com] wrote:
> > Think the mafia refers to this as a protection racket...
> >
> > man so much can be made of this its a techy comedy gold mine.
> >
> >
> > "our software sucks so bad that the market for anti virus software for
> > our platform is such a lucrative market that we cant stay out of it"
> >
> > Andre Ludwig CISSP
> >
> > On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 19:41:49 -0400, slacker <leetslacker@...thome.net> wrote:
> > >
> > > <snip>
> > > >  SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. (MSFT.O: Quote, Profile,
> > > > Research) is still on track to offer an anti-virus product that will
> > > > compete against similar software offered by Symantec Corp. (SYMC.O:
> > > > Quote, Profile, Research) and Network Associates Inc. (NET.N: Quote,
> > > > Profile, Research) , the world's largest software maker said late on
> > >
> > > Oh yeah, what's the average delay to release on exploit patches? What makes
> > > me think that they are going to be that slow on releasing AV updates?  =P
> > >
> > > slacker
> > >
> > >
> >
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