Re: M$ to charge to protect users from it's OS holes, security.


Jim Polaski wrote:
http://www.tgdaily.com/2006/05/31/microsoft_launches_onecare/

"Microsoft takes OneCare security suite live

Wolfgang Gruener

May 31, 2006 15:04

Redmond (WA) - Slightly ahead of schedule, Microsoft today released the
final version of its first contender in the commercial security software
segment: Windows Live OneCare includes a software bundle that promises
to defend computers against common malware threats as well as free
support for users that need advice in protecting their system or
removing a virus.

Microsoft's security suite goes head to head with current leading
security software packages such as Symantec's Norton Internet Security
or McAfee's Internet Security Suite by offering similar functionality
that tightly integrates with the Windows operating system."


Good, I suppose, for Windows users. After all, who but M$ should know
Windows better.

more in the article...

I think your thread title is wrong. Patches for OS holes are still
free via Windows Update. Protection against "malware" is a different
matter; most malware doesn't rely on OS holes, but rather, user
stupidity (or naivete, gullibility, or whatever euphamism you want to
use). Of course, Windows has the additional problem that most people
run as admin, so malware can insert itself into system areas such that
it's launched at system boot and can affect all user accounts on the
computer rather than just the account that initially installed the
malware. But the same can happen for Macs (most Mac users run as admin
(not "root", but admin nearly just as exploitable).

Also, Microsoft *has* to charge for this to avoid lawsuits from McAfee
and Norton.

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