Microsoft is getting ready to unveil a long-anticipated free anti-virus service for personal computers that will compete with products sold by Symantec Corp and McAfee Inc. A Microsoft spokesman said on Wednesday that the world's biggest software maker... ...full story at digg
from digg on Thu, Jun 11 2009
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| 11 Jun 09 |
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Microsoft will soon unveil free anti-virus software (Jim Finkle/Reuters) » techmeme Jim Finkle / Reuters: Microsoft will soon unveil free anti-virus software — * Will soon put beta version on website — * Company employees testing it internally — * Shares rise 2.1 percent (Adds... |
| 19 Nov 08 |
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Microsoft To Offer Free Anti-Virus Software » slashdot Dynamoo writes "The good news is that Microsoft have announced free anti-virus software for consumers, dubbed Morro, available late next year. The bad news is... well, exactly the same. Although Microsoft's anti-malware products are pretty good, this move... |
| 21 May 08 |
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Microsoft Patents 'Proactive' Virus Protection » slashdot An anonymous reader writes "InfoWeek blogger Alex Wolfe wonders whether Microsoft will go after McAfee, Symantec, Trend Micro, and Kaspersky for software royalties for proactive virus protection software. The technique enables security software to protect... |
| 13 Jun 09 |
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Microsoft to give away anti-virus » digg The company is reportedly trialling free anti-virus software internally and said the beta version would be released "soon". |
| 21 May 09 |
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BitDefender launches 'suck it and see' free anti-virus scanner » the register (uk) Cut-down software in consumer marketing push Romanian anti-virus firm BitDefender has begun offering a free version of its anti-virus scanner software to consumers.…Whitepaper - Creating portals with Office Sharepoint: put an end to the information fr... |
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