Microsoft moves into anti-virus market

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Mary Z - 01 Jun 2006 14:41 GMT

Wish they would spend as much time and money making windows secure,
but now they have an incentive to keep the operating system insecure.
$50 per year and it is focused on the consumer market.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/06/01/BUG7RJ5F1R1.DTL

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spodosaurus - 01 Jun 2006 14:50 GMT

> Wish they would spend as much time and money making windows secure,
> but now they have an incentive to keep the operating system insecure.
> $50 per year and it is focused on the consumer market.
> http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/06/01/BUG7RJ5F1R1.DTL

It's like a prisoner transport contractor selling security systems for
people along the route from the courthouse to the jail...

Or is this more like the mafia demanding protection money?

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Nell - 01 Jun 2006 16:43 GMT

When I get the modem transferred from one computer to the other, I'll
just download AVG, my anti-virus of choice.

I wish they'd make Windows more secure, too. The Windows are kind of
drafty.

Well, Billy Gates will have some more pocket money.

I already pay him $11.95 a month (WebTV subscription minus $10 break for
open ISP--I pay $6.95 for my ISP).

Our email addresses are still @webtv.net even though the service is
called MSNTV (MSN, part of Microsoft, bought WebTV years ago).

I do have a Mac (a very old, slow one) but I needed a Windows computer
for some programs that weren't Mac compatible.

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