Now Microsoft aims for Anti-Virus Market
News February 9th, 2005
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Now Microsoft aims for Anti-Virus Market
Microsoft is definitely feeling the pressure. The mess created with bugs, security flaws in their Operating System meant, there are ranges of spywares, and viruses spread all around just waiting to mess your computer. That led to the rise of a complete industry with companies producing softwares to prevent such crap happenings to home and business computers.
Microsoft later realized the potential of this market (created by their own mess!) and bought the Giant Software Company, which specialized in making Anti-Spyware applications. In few days, we had a Microsoft Anti-Spyware Beta available online for free! It now competes heads on with applications like Ad-Aware and SpyBot-Search&Destroy.
The latest news in is even more interesting. Microsoft is now aiming for the more popular Anti-Virus market with the acquisition of the Sybari Software Inc. an anti-virus software maker. This would put Microsoft in direct competition to market leaders Symantec and McAfee. These companies have always maintained a close relationship with the software giant and Microsoft also user their services in its own offerings in the form of Hotmail Attachment scanning.
If Microsoft releases its own product based on Sybari’s technology for free, it could mean big revenue losses to other security firms. Effects were already visible as McAfee shares were down 8.55 percent in the New York Stock Exchange while Symantec was down 5.64 percent on the NASDAQ.
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hahahaa finally bill is doing something, u know i use to envision this and never thought it would happen, i wanted to make an OS, that was stable, had tightly packed the antivirus in it for free, along with spyware protection and a firewall,.. but u know another security step bill could tae it totally start over, with the browser and the whole OS, totally build it from scratch ground up.. but that wont happen, becuz then theres the famus microsoft bugs, but it could help with security but takes too much money;….. microsoft is heading the right way.. it should protect the pcs from viruses.. but maybe also work on your firewall.. microsoft has alot to do, im suprised theyre doing so much, with the new browser the antispy the antivirus and the new OS.. just work on your firewall seriosuly it blocks nothing, its liek it doent work, make it better than ZA, and syget look at what theyre doing.. work on the antispyware alot more, make sure it find all .. work on the IE, do somehting with the active x, tats whats causing this whole spyware mess, its an exploit that microsoft made..
The firewall in Windows XP SP2 is actually working well. Inbound connections are rejected by default and outbound connections need to be approved. The firewall also beats others as it is integrated in to the OS and allows the Admin to control it via Group Policy. This allows me to open certain ports while a laptop is within my domain and close most should the laptop be use outside my domain like in a hotel.