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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."

5 of 461 comments (clear)

  1. Troll tuesday by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    nuff said brothers

  2. Great Queen Song Comes to Mind by OldFNG · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    *boom* *boom* *boom* nother ones bites the dust

  3. And in other news... by Zaphod+B · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    In other news, scientists combine a pound of pasta and a pound of antipasto and cause an enormous chain reaction, obliterating life as we know it across four continents.

    "Something that perfect could only exist if there was a god to create it, so the Babel fish proved there was a god. Proof denies faith however, and faith is the standard by which we are to know God. Oops, says God, without faith I have no followers, and disappears in a theological puff of smoke."

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    Zaphod B
    When duplication is outlawed, only outlaws will have /bin/cp
  4. Re:So...? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ... funny; studies have shown there were more than 7x more bug fixes/patches for Linux last year than for Windows. I know my Linux box at work has 3 or 4 updates every day. I get maybe one every 2-3 weeks on my main dev box (XPpro)

    Then again, this will probably be modded out of existence. After all, this is /. and the truth has never been able to gain a foothold here.

  5. Re:I keep seeing "MS Antivirus"... by BigBadBri · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Other new products:

    Ashcroft AntiAuthoritarian
    Bush AntiUntruth
    Cheney AntiCorruption

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    oh brave new world, that has such people in it!