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At 11:58 07-01-05 +0100, Renata Bloem wrote:<br>
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<font face="Times New Roman, Times"><b>FYI<br>
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Reuters </b></font>07 Jan 2005, 08:21<br>
<font face="Times New Roman, Times"><b>SOFTWARE SUPREMO</b></font>,
Microsoft, has entered the world of virus fighting with a free security
program to remove spyware. </blockquote><br>
This sounds reall strange. I thought that MS Windows is capable of doing
that with the new Service Pack 2, or even without it (in case you don't
know, sometimes it's better not to install it -
<a href="http://foss.bg/blog/index.php?p=7" eudora="autourl">
http://foss.bg/blog/index.php?p=7</a> ). <br><br>
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<font face="Times New Roman, Times">The software giant bought a Romanian
antivirus firm, GeCAD Software, and the wide-scale belief is that Vole
will have a fully functional AV product in the shops by March.
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Aha, yes! Now, that's a different story. It's not Microsoft at the
end..., so it may work. <br><br>
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<font face="Times New Roman, Times">Symantec shares have dropped by six
percent and McAfee were down by around four percent yesterday as
Microsoft's news was announced. While Microsoft's free software is not an
immediate threat, there is the fear that Vole will use its size and
influence to expand into markets now dominated by those companies.
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Well, if Microsoft continue to release patches at the speed they do it
now, certainly there will be lots of work for Symantec and McAfee.
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<font face="arial" size=2>best,<br>
veni</font></body>
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