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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."

6 of 444 comments (clear)

  1. RealPlayer Backfired by c0d3r · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Now M$ is making money so the small guys like realplayer can't cry.

  2. Re:Unspecified reasons? by rolfwind · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    No worries, there's already free antivirus out there.

    It's called OS X, Linux Distro (insert distro name such as Ubuntu, Fedora, Mepis, Gentoo, etcetera), *BSD, Plan 9/Inferno, did I miss something?

    Actually, isn't Clam AV, for Linux, used to scan incoming traffic before it reaches Windows boxes? Not for linux protection itself, per se.

    Depressing how all the free solutions are better built than the one dominant pay-for solution. Actually, it's more depressing that it's able to be sold....

  3. Re:Two possible reasons by zxnos · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    hmmm, i have an amd64 based notebook and i was able to exchange my licence just fine. just typed in the info and away i went. it only took a couple months to get it though... ...the only problem is that hp doesnt support xp 64bit. however; everything i need works.

    does kubuntu 64bit support broadcom wireless? how is it working in general? i gave ubuntu 64bit a whack and had a plethora of problems. the biggest of which being no wireless. with all of the stuff i am hearing about vista, i am seriously considering open source. but i dont want to hassle with an os and my wife needs it to be as seemless as possible.

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    always mosh clockwise
  4. Alchin? by jcr · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Haven't MSFT's shareholders lynched him by now?

    -jcr

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    The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
  5. Re:Damned if they do, Damned if they don't by ivan256 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Overrated I can live with. I think 90% of everything I say is overrated.

    Flamebait though?

    I hope you get metamoderated to hell for that you Microsoft fanboy prick. It wasn't even inflamatory, much less designed to be inflamatory.

    (Now that is flamebait!)

  6. Re:Two possible reasons by locohijo · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    or Linux, waiting to be downloaded. Is there a reason to care anymore?