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Intel Enters Anti-Virus Market

Posted by samzenpus on from the anti-virus-inside dept.

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."

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  1. More Free Software Disappearing? by PipOC · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Does this mean that they're no longer going to release AVG updates?

    1. Re:More Free Software Disappearing? by JPM+NICK · · Score: 5, Informative

      Its not gone, i Just got it this weekend. It is just hidden on the site. I think ypu need to go to free.grisoft.com

    2. Re:More Free Software Disappearing? by PIPBoy3000 · · Score: 5, Informative

      There's always ClamAV, though it doesn't have real-time virus scanning and it's not as easy to use (a Windows install requires Cygwin). Still, it's an open source option.

  2. Great Product by JPM+NICK · · Score: 5, Informative

    AVG is great for me because it barely uses any system resources. I run a small company with older hardware and it runs great on there. Much better than something like Norton which can really bog down one of those machines

  3. Re:Antivirus CPU by hungrygrue · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yes, they plan to build chips that automatically shut down when they detect Windows running. Problem solved.

  4. I can picture it now... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Virus Found: AdvancedMediaDestruction.worm

    Threat: 5
    Ease of Removal: 3

    Symptoms: Unit performs well in games and does not get nearly as hot under normal operation.

    Removal Instructions:
    1) Unplug computer and peripherals.
    2) Take off side panel.
    3) Locate large heatsink/fan and remove from chasis.
    4) Remove the underlying chip (Warning: May cause demonic possession if not removed violently enough).

    After which, you must replace the motherboard to fully alleviate all issues.

    Prevention: Use Intel.

  5. Re:Crap. by JPriest · · Score: 5, Informative

    And AntiVir

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  6. Re:Their reputation is being tarnished. by commo1 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I..... don't agree. Viruses are not generally written in machine or machine-specific code, they do the same as most Windows software does: call APIs that have flaws in them because MS does not write them robustly enough nor is there peer review to point out flaws that an originating team optimizing for flawless interoperability with another team's APIs and other code. In essence, open-source development is so sucessful in a security sense because such review (ie: how could a virus exploit this?) has already taken place in the development process in the wild.

    A virus written for a Windows XP machine has at least a 90% chance of hitting a similarly protected Alpha running XP (OK, OK, let the flames begin....). Does the above comment infer that when Mac OS moves to i386 it will be more suceptible? This may be the case, for one or both of two reasons: 1) by then the focus will have moved from MS Windows attacks to Mac OS attacks because of market penetration, plus the added bonus of being a novelty like Windows virii have become. 2) the virus developers have learned tricks for machine calls and stops only pertinent to i386s; see the missing 10%.

  7. Re:I wonder.. by Mahou · · Score: 5, Interesting

    more important: will intel still allow avg free to exist?

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    ...te?
  8. Pro Virus CPU. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    BBSpot reported on this ages ago!

    http://www.bbspot.com/News/2005/05/intel_virus_cop rocessor.html