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No Anti-Virus in Vista

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the left-out-in-the-cold dept.

truthsearch writes "Microsoft will omit anti-virus protection in Vista, the next version of Windows. Redmond is promoting Vista as a landmark improvement in Windows security. Yet Jim Allchin also told CRN in a recent interview that there will be no anti-virus software. For unspecified business (not technical) reasons, Microsoft will sell anti-virus protection to consumers through its OneCare online backup and security service."

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  1. Re:Two possible reasons by jurt1235 · · Score: 4, Funny

    3) Bigger profits!

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  2. And at Ford... by rumblin'rabbit · · Score: 5, Funny

    The new Taurus will have seat belts only as part of the optional FE (Family Edition).

  3. Re:So let me get this straight... by luvirini · · Score: 4, Funny

    Pricing and DRM.

  4. No Antivirus by db32 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Why would they ship a product that is likely to erase their own .dlls? What if it removed IE?!

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  5. Windows Vista - Titanic Edition by RealGrouchy · · Score: 3, Funny

    Windows Vista won't need any antivirus software, it's practically unsinkable!

    - RG>

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  6. Re:Two possible reasons by muszek · · Score: 5, Funny

    5) Vista will be a secure OS, thus it will not need any protection ;)

  7. Hold on bucko! by mistergin.net · · Score: 5, Funny

    You're moving too fast here...

    You're just yelling slower and louder to someone who already has no idea what you're truly trying to say...

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  8. Re:So first virus in? by dotgain · · Score: 3, Funny
    No, of course not. It's inconceivable that a proof-of-concept could translate or be adapated into a real-world virus, isn't it!?

    Sheesh

  9. This Just In... by BeatdownGeek · · Score: 4, Funny

    In other news, MS announced that the new operating system will now be renamed to Windows Vista Millenium Edition.

  10. Re:Religion is blind. by Saeed+al-Sahaf · · Score: 4, Funny

    Dman, I've been made. It's true, I don't even know what it means, but it implies credibility to my argument... ;)

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  11. Re:Damned if they do, Damned if they don't by ConceptJunkie · · Score: 4, Funny

    I don't know either, but I wish /. could let you give a -5 score to any posting with "virii" in it.

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  12. Re:Damned if they do, Damned if they don't by aug24 · · Score: 3, Funny

    What's the problem? Virus is Latin, right? So two = virii, three = viriii, four = viriv, five = virv, six = virvi, etc etc.

    J.

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