Replying to Microsoft - First Anti-spyware Now Anti-virus !

I posted alot of this before that Microsoft is forcing themselves into the antivirus market aggressively by intergrating their security products into Windows Security Center and forcing everyone to update their computers to SP2 (which might not be true) but if they're doing it this way, it won't be fair to antivirus vendors.Microsoft can at least allow their users to opt out of it but this is a large blow to the antivirus market.Shares in Symantec have lost a third of their value from highs seen late last year, while McAfee's stock is down by a quarter.These are only two of the major players in the antivirus market and what will happen to other low profile vendors whom we like like AVG?

well I haven't heard good things about microsoft anti-spyware, so I don't use it and I don't think that anti-virus will be better... so I trust on zone alarm and norton
and now there's a new technology of microsoft called "trusted computing" to block unlicensed software, well, and maybe also other "unliked" software, like open source things
so I only recommend all to use other tools

i quite like the MS anti-spyware software, i used SpyBot fo a while but have switched over to the MS one when it was released as i read it has a larger database and have sofar found it very unintrusive and well worth using. for once M$ seems to have released some software that seems to be very good at its job and not interferaring.

Hopefully the program will be free like the anti-spyware. It would be neat if it is.

The OS made it's own anti-spyware program, and planning to release an anti-virus one... I already got the anti-spyware, maybe I should get the anti-virus too. A windows product for a windows product is a good combination.

Hi,

MS dealing with secure and antivirus scares me to death. MS the grand master of millions of bugs now dealing with more security...!!!! To trust surch of solution would invite your pc to every single of virus or other attacks worldwide. My oppenion is simple...NO THANKS!!! I stay more secure with my old Norton or McAfee or Panda (or everything else than MS).

Cheers!

Jens

Symantec can blow me ... or give me a FREE PC UPGRADE inorder for thier software to work correctly and fast .

Wow, Microsoft Antivirus! Maybe they might come up with Microsoft System Works or Microsoft Firewall (well, there is a bad quality Windows Firewall)

I don't think I'll use Microsoft Antivirus. Unless they buy Symantec... he he

according to MSDN reports , ur wrong kapuntik

The purpose of this deal , other than releasing a Commercial AntiViurs program ( which will be free for the next OS users only )

Making small security patches that fixes wholes in current XP SP2 to shut ppl whining about Windows security up , and it will be released thru Microsoft Windows Update V5 ( thus freely for any Windows XP SP2 users ) .

of course Windows 95 / 98 and Millenium users( especialy ME ) should either upgrade or stick that CD in thier mouths ...

Somehow I think that Microsoft is jumping into the antivirus bandwagon, most spicifically to help plug holes in its own Operating systems. Its very likely that MS is looking into having a software that is configured to deal specifically with microsoft problems. Think about it.. a majority of all the damage causing virus/worm/trojan bunch attack gaps in OS and specific microsoft programs. And its pretty usual for these attacks to begin after microsoft has announced a problem. So the antivirus devision will research and develop virus cures with the aim of holding back infections while patches are made for the originating code itself. AND you're going to have to pay for it... :-)

R.A.