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Microsoft Plans To Sell Anti-Virus Software
EvilCowzGoMoo writes "From the makers of our favorite OS comes: Anti-Virus! Yes you heard me right. According to an article on Reuters.com Microsoft is developing its own brand of anti-virus software. Asked if that would hurt sales of competing products, such as Network Associates' McAfee and Symantec's Norton family of products, Nash (chief of Microsoft's security business unit) said that Microsoft said that it would sell its anti-virus program as a separate product from Windows, rather than including it in Windows. My only question is: If they can't seem to patch their OS fast enough, what makes them think they can keep their AV software up to date?"
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So, what, it deinstalls Windows for you?
PepperHacks - Hacking the Pepper Pad
Extra 10 bonus points on top of that if the virus also deletes the Product Activiation data!
"Hello? Microsoft? I need to re-activate Windows and my anti-virus software so I can clean out this virus..."
Napster-to-go says "Fill and refill your compatible MP3 player", which is a lie. It's not MP3. It's WMA with DRM.
Exactly - I can see it now:
"There are 10 new holes in Windows XP - but the patches won't be out for weeks, so you'll need to buy the latest AV software from us to protect against it until the latest updates are out."
10 bonus karma points for the first person to write a worm that exploits a vulnerability in Microsoft's AV software!
MS beat us to it. It's called Outlook.
"Hay Balmer, our anti-virus software sales are slipping lately. Let's add remote scripting capability into solitare."
Who would win this election: Andrew Weiner vs Andrew Weiner's weiner.
Fantastic! When can we expect a Mac version?
Too bad your average consumer doesn't know enough about computers to see the irony:
Salesperson: Buy our Operating System!
Customer: OK.
Salesperson: Now buy our Antivirus solution! Without it, hackers will steal your identity.
Customer: Egads! Here! Take all my cash!
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Microsoft selling Anti-Virus software is like al-Qaida selling life insurance.