full-disclosure - MS Anti Virus?

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Message-ID: <041f01c45491$6196a430$b005bb0a@corp.ad.timeinc.com>
From: jlevitsk at joshie.com (Joshua Levitsky)
Subject: MS Anti Virus?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "DAN MORRILL" <dan_20407@....com>
Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2004 11:51 AM
Subject: Re: [Full-Disclosure] MS Anti Virus?

> You make anti virus software sound like a gun lock on a 9MM.
>
> Does it really matter who is in the anti-virus market? If Microsoft goes
> that way, and they have the best knowledge of what they created, what we
can
> reasonably expect to see in the words of Bill Gates "Innovation, with rich
> user features, deeply embeded in our software".

Wonder if Microsoft will give their new AV product the same crappy treatment
they gave their past AV product...

http://home.pmt.org/~drose/aw-win3x-31.html

Perhaps they will release it during XP SP2 and then kill it just in time for
Longhorn. Anyone that puts any faith in this new AV from Microsoft is a
fool.

--
Joshua Levitsky, MCSE, CISSP
System Engineer
http://www.foist.org/
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