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MS To Build Antivirus Into Win8: Boon Or Monopoly?

Posted by Soulskill on from the efficacy-to-be-determined dept.

jfruhlinger writes "Microsoft has quietly announced that it's planning on baking anti-virus protection right into the Windows 8 OS. Users have been criticizing Windows' insecurity for years — but of course this move is raising howls of protest from anti-virus vendors, who have built a nice business out of Windows' security holes. Is this a good move by Microsoft, or a leveraging of their monopoly as bad as bundling Internet Explorer?"

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  1. Re:Anti-Trust by Dahamma · · Score: 1, Redundant

    That problem has been addressed many times already... sandboxing. The runtime/VM will still have full access, of course, but can control exactly what resources the sandboxed apps can access. That's the one of the major goals of Java, .Net, Flash, DHTML/Javascript, etc.