Re: Microsoft Spyware Detection/Removal Tool

From: taharka (taharka_at_HotPOP.com)
Date: 01/08/05 

Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2005 20:59:50 -0500

14tonks wrote:
> "taharka" <taharka@HotPOP.com> wrote in message
> news:dWEDd.746$Lu1.391@fe61.usenetserver.com...
>
>>Something free from Microsoft? Better scarf down on this ;-)
>>
>>Fuelled by its recent gobble-up of Giant Software, Microsoft has
>>released a Beta of its new spyware-bashing tool. It's available free for
>>download from www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software
>>Strangely enough, other PC security firms have been rather tight-lipped
>>about the whole affair. Could this be the shape of protection to come?
>>
>>taharka
>
>
> Expecting other security firms to post announcements that Microsoft has
> apparently now decided to incorporate "free" antivirus software into its
> operating systems would be rather like expecting Netscape to have told you
> that you ought to switch to Internet Explorer, don't you think?

Well, this announcement is not my doings. It came from a newsletter that
I subscribe to via email from PCFormat Magazine. www.pcformat.co.uk I
didn't read anywhere that Microsoft has decided to incorporate antivirus
software into it's operating systems. AFAIK this is a stand alone
software package & is for spyware detection/removal only not antivirus.
Any issues with the announcement should be directed to the forums at
PCFormat Magazine. My intentions are to merely let folks know there is a
new spyware detection/removal tool out there.

> I don't necessarily see this as cause for rejoicing, since the net result
> may be the same as the great browser wars. Competitive products will be
> driven out of the market, and then MS will allow its own product to
> deteriorate, since there will no longer be any incentive to invest much
> further development time or money once they have a monopoly.
>

Rejoicing from me will come when Microsoft puts out an OS that is
comparable to Unix/Linux ;-)

taharka

Lexington, Kentucky U.S.A.

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