Intel Enters Anti-Virus Market

Jack writes "ITO holds a story on latest Intel investment: "Intel is branching into anti-virus security with a $16 million investment in Czech anti-virus software vendor Grisoft. Grisoft's AVG anti-virus is used on more than 25 million computers worldwide, according to the company."

Comments

Kudos to Intel.

[CyricZ]

It's great to see Intel taking the initiative to deal with problems that are associated with their product, but not directly caused by it. While the problems lie with Microsoft and the faults of their Windows operating systems, at least Intel is willing to put some effort towards limiting the damage that may be caused by malicious software.

I would love to see the developers of PHP take a similar route. Their product has often looked very bad as of late, mainly due to security flaws in third-party software written in PHP. While the developers themselves are not to blame, they could still work towards limiting the damage caused by poorly written scripts.

You shouldn't need anti-virus software.

[CyricZ]

Have you considered switching to Linux or FreeBSD? That is, of course, assuming you don't have any Windows-specific applications. Linux and FreeBSD work great on older systems for many applications, and offer vastly increased security. You wouldn't have to worry about installing anti-virus software, and the chances of your computers getting infected with spyware would be near zero. That, of course, could very well prevent your business' data from being sent to criminals from parts unknown.