Microsoft pushes further into anti-virus and anti-spyware territory
2005; Elsevier BV; Volume: 2005; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1016/s1353-4858(05)00190-x
ISSN1872-9371
Tópico(s)Cybercrime and Law Enforcement Studies
ResumoMicrosoft bought another piece of the IT security market this month with its recent acquisition of anti-virus company, Sybari Software.Bill Gates announced at the RSA show in San Francisco that Microsoft will release a new a-v scanning engine based on the acquired technology.The resulting product will also come from technology gleaned from Microsoft's acquisition of the Romanian anti-virus vendor, GeCAD in 2003. The big question is, however, whether, a-v protection will come bundled with the Microsoft operating system.Microsoft already plans to give a spyware program away free to PC consumers. It has released a beta version of Spynet, which already has five million downloads so far. However the industry is still in the dark about how the company will make its future anti-virus offering available.
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