Microsoft announces new anti-spyware software
Posted by Matthew on Thursday January 6, 2005 @12:41PM
from the An-Apple-a-Day dept.
Matthew writes: Under siege from spyware—a malignant new breed of software that exploit security vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer in order to install them selves, track user behavior, and provide access to hackers—Microsoft has announced that it is providing free anti-spyware software for Windows.
The software, dubbed “Macintosh OS X” was developed in cooperation with Apple Computer corporation. Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates explained the software at the recent Consumer Eelectronics Show (CES): “We’ve taken software that Apple had already developed and ported it to the x86 Architecture. By providing a new operating system core that is fundamentally incompatible with software written for Windows, we’ve pulled the rug out from under spyware, virus, and other malware opportunists.”
Mr. Gates also noted that the new software will pose challenges for users. “Security always comes at a cost to usability. In this case, users will have to throw away all of their software, but that’s a small price to pay for security.”
Subject:Well..
Software already exists to stop IE loopholes…
its called Firefox.
Comment by MongooseMan — January 6, 2005 @ 7:15 pm
Subject:No Subject Given
Hmm… Seems to me that Linux would be cheaper and better, and I've never had any problems with spyware running Arch…
Comment by showardkid — January 7, 2005 @ 10:20 pm
Subject:Throw away code
“users will have to throw away all of their software, but that’s a small price to pay for security.“
Haha… I'd believe it. (Only after Microsoft ports the code for Office, Media Player and Internet Exploder)
Comment by Evil Waffle — January 12, 2005 @ 10:43 am
Subject:Re: Throw away code
Internet Explorer and Office are already 'ported' to MacOS X, however, if you ported MacOS X to x86 you would have to once again port IE and Office, since it was designed to run under MacOS X on the PPC platform.
Comment by hmmz — February 25, 2005 @ 12:22 am