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Microsoft's new anti-spyware solution will be free
Microsoft also plans to launch a new version of its Internet Explorer Web browser that incorporates more stringent security features.
"Customers are concerned about the risk malware (malicious software) poses to their personal information, and frustrated by its impact on the reliability and performance of their computers." - Bill Gates.
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Spike
on February 15, 2005 6:46 PM |
Apart from the fact that it seems the fox is now guarding the chicken coup, it's fairly obvious, even to MS I hope, that this is the kind of MS software that would offent the EXACT sort of people inclined to find holes in it and exploit them. Knowing MS, it will sooner or later have some form of deep integration into windows, possibly providing the holes to be exploited. If microsoft is going in this direction the applications core and windows integration need to be rock solid.[quote]Microsoft also plans to launch a new version of its Internet Explorer Web browser that incorporates more stringent security features.[/quote]I can see the alerts already...[b]"MSIE - Anti-SpywareInternet Explorer has detected that it is not the default web browser because the Web Browsing Service has been hijacked.would you like to make internet explorer your default web browser, and remove the hijacker?[/b](yes/no/details buttons)Details:Connection origin : local initiatedProtocol : TCPLocal Address : xxx.xxx.xxx.xxxLocal Port : xxxx Remote Name : www.here.co.ukRemote Address : xxx.xxx.xxx.xxxRemote Port : 80 (HTTP - World Wide Web)Ethernet packet details:Ethernet II (Packet Length: 76) Destination: xx-xx-xx-xx-xx-xx Source: xx-xx-xx-xx-xx-xx[ font=Really Really Really small ]FilesMozilla Firefoxfirefox.exeFile Version : 1.0.0.0File Description : FirefoxFile Path : C:Program FilesMozilla Firefoxfirefox.exe[ /font ][b]"[/b]I hope it isn't allowed to get to that stage, but MS is a massive corporation. There's no doubt that they'll do it if they can get away with it! |
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Julio
on February 16, 2005 2:58 PM |
Sounds good... only way to compete with AdAware or Spybot for sure, in the other hand, current beta does not work for pirated Windows installations, so... |
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