Microsoft To Offer Virus Defense

Posted by Zonk on Friday May 13, 2005 @02:54AM from the no-more-foot-shooting dept.

FridayBob writes "According to the New York Times, Microsoft plans to enter the consumer antivirus business with a subscription service next year. Most of us will remember Microsoft's assimilation of RAV Antivirus from GeCAD Software of Romania in 2003." From the article: "Microsoft plans to expand the service beyond its 60,000 employees this summer and offer an open trial for consumers this fall. No date has been set for a commercial introduction, but the executive in charge of the new business said it would ultimately be offered as an annual service by subscription."

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This isn't the first time by Dragonmaster+Lou · 2005-05-13 02:59 · Score: 5, Informative

Microsoft used to ship a licensed copy of [then] Central Point Software's Anti-Virus program with MS-DOS 6.0. They stopped shipping anti-virus software with the release of Windows 95, however. I'm surprsied it's taken them this long to start shipping an anti-virus tool with their OS again.
Re:Also try AVAST! by MarkGriz · 2005-05-13 03:39 · Score: 5, Informative

Another good, free alternative is AVG Antivirus

It's great for tinfoil hatters too, since you don't even need a registration code.

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