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Message-ID: <20040617025652.GB3746@ref.nmedia.net>
From: chris at nmedia.net (Chris Cappuccio)
Subject: MS Anti Virus?

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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