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Microsoft Acquires RAV Antivirus

Posted by michael on from the join-the-collective dept.

Webmoth writes "Microsoft has announced the assimilation of RAV Antivirus from GeCAD Software of Romania. This is significant, because RAV Antivirus was one of the few antivirus products that provided cross-platform email virus scanning and spam filtering, integrating with sendmail and postfix on Linux (among others). No word yet on the impact to non-Microsoft users. In the process, they've left RAE Internet, the (former) exclusive U.S. distributor of RAV Antivirus, along with a host of authorized resellers, in the dust."

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  1. Microsoft Anti-virus by kismar · · Score: 5, Funny

    So which will come sooner, the patch detecting the virus or the patch to fix the hole in the operating system that the virus exploits?

  2. Cross platform by ActiveY · · Score: 5, Funny

    I believe Microsoft will follow RAV's cross platform tradition. The products will be available on all major platforms including Windows 9X, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 and Windows CE.

  3. Re:maybe I'm just a half-full kinda guy... by edbarrett · · Score: 5, Funny

    So windows is emacs, then? :)