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Microsoft Anti-Spyware Preview

Tom Warren   on 20 December 2004 - 17:18 · 100 comments & 20970 views

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Paul Thurrott has thrown up a great preview of Microsoft's plans for Anti-spyware. In the preview he details the current technology from Giant Software and what Microsoft is planning to do with it. It's a great read and here's a snip:

"So now that Microsoft has purchased Giant and its anti-spyware solution, attention logically turns toward what the company will do with it. Previously, Microsoft had revealed that it would release an anti-spyware solution in 2005, a year ahead of the mid-2006 release of Longhorn (where its anti-spyware solution was originally set to appear). The company has internal anti-spyware and malware projects, codenamed Strider and GhostBuster, respectively, which would have fulfilled those goals, and sources I've spoken with suggest that Microsoft understands, perhaps better than anyone, how today's malicious spyware is now hooking into Windows systems and intends to rectify that situation."

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#1 vetmalebolgia on 20 Dec 2004 - 18:17
I really hope that Microsoft doesn't charge for this, but knowing Microsoft they will.

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