[plug] M$ buys RAV antivirus, sad.

Chris Caston caston at arach.net.au
Wed Jun 11 13:07:04 WST 2003


What's a bet that that one or more AV companies will secretly write a
virus that targets or even exploits it?

regards,

Chris

On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 12:44, Kai Jones wrote:
> Prolly integrate it with Windows and try to wipe out all other AV programs,
> the same way they're still trying to win 100% market share with their
> browser.
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Craig Ringer [mailto:craig at postnewspapers.com.au]
> > Sent: Wednesday, 11 June 2003 12:36 PM
> > To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
> > Subject: Re: [plug] M$ buys RAV antivirus, sad.
> >
> >
> > *lol*
> >
> > Just yesterday I made the mistake of saying that while it'd
> > be nice if
> > MS integrated AV with Windows, it wasn't likely to happen.
> > This suggests
> > that perhaps it just might... who knows what they're really
> > planning to do.
> >
> > Craig
> >
> 
> 




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