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Microsoft Unwraps 'A1' Consumer Security Service | |
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| Time: 12:09 EST/17:09 GMT | News Source: eWeek | Posted By: Andre Da Costa | ||
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After more than two years of development, Microsoft's consumer PC security bundle is (almost) ready for prime time. The software giant plans to roll out an internal beta of the service—dubbed Windows OneCare—to employees next week, the first official step in an ambitious plan to bundle anti-virus, anti-spyware, firewall protection and PC cleanup tools to Windows users. | ||
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| #1 By 7797 (63.76.44.6) at 5/13/2005 12:36:09 PM |
| Hey I have an idea, why not FIX the OS so that people won't NEED antivirus and antispyware in the first place. Nah.. that would be too easy and microsoft would be blamed for killing off the antivirus and antispyware industries it had previously created. Its all part of the healthy Windows software ecosystem. LOL |
| #2 By 15406 (216.191.227.90) at 5/13/2005 1:09:44 PM |
| *cough* |
| #3 By 32132 (206.116.136.250) at 5/13/2005 2:12:38 PM |
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Hey, great idea. Get Firefox and OS X and iTunes and Linux and open source to fix their 10,000 or more security holes too!
And then Microsoft can fix the 10 or so holes in XP SP2. |
| #4 By 61 (65.32.175.192) at 5/13/2005 5:58:56 PM |
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The spyware problem simply can not be 'fixed'. It's just an application that runs in the background, monitoring what you are doing, and can be done on ANY OS.
While Windows is a bit more prone to viruses than other OSes, the others are NOT without their own virus problems. And for the record, Microsoft IS working on fixing these problems, with things like the limited user mode in Longhorn, managed code, NX, and more. |
| #5 By 5444 (69.30.184.64) at 5/15/2005 11:38:21 PM |
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CPUGuy,
I would disagree on the point of spyware not being fixed. Make it feasable to run as a Limited user Account and 98% of spyware goes away. Fix the firewall so that it blocks all outgoing traffice without explicitly getting permissioin to leave the machine and you fix the remaining 2%. IOW all it takes is an Easy way to Limit the Machine on a User account. I will say this. 90% of users don't want to have to think about security. And this is were Linux and etc will break down as it is forced upon the user. User managemetn must be Easy. (Linux even in the GUI mode still has a ways to go in that point) IOW Windows Greatest Stregnth is also its greatest Weakness. Usability. And yes Longorn will be a Huge stride in the right direction. and the LUA account in LH will be One of the Best reasons to upgrade IMO. El |
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