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01-06-2005, 02:59 PM
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,119197,00.asp
The stocks of major antivirus software vendors were trading lower today after Microsoft announced the release of beta anti-spyware technology it bought in December and said it would begin giving away an improved tool to remove worms and viruses from its customers' computers.
Following Microsoft's news, shares of Symantec were down by more than 6 percent and shares in rival McAfee were down by around 4 percent in Thursday's late-afternoon trading. While the free antivirus and virus removal tools are not an immediate threat to the products from those companies, the releases could signal tougher times ahead for desktop security vendors, as Microsoft uses its size and influence to expand into markets now dominated by those companies, industry experts say.
Yea like MS can keep up with antivirus updates. They have hard enough time patching windows as it is, releasing fixes a month or more after the flaw has been discovered. If they expect to remain competitive in the antivirus market their updates must happen daily or weekly like all the other companies.
The stocks of major antivirus software vendors were trading lower today after Microsoft announced the release of beta anti-spyware technology it bought in December and said it would begin giving away an improved tool to remove worms and viruses from its customers' computers.
Following Microsoft's news, shares of Symantec were down by more than 6 percent and shares in rival McAfee were down by around 4 percent in Thursday's late-afternoon trading. While the free antivirus and virus removal tools are not an immediate threat to the products from those companies, the releases could signal tougher times ahead for desktop security vendors, as Microsoft uses its size and influence to expand into markets now dominated by those companies, industry experts say.
Yea like MS can keep up with antivirus updates. They have hard enough time patching windows as it is, releasing fixes a month or more after the flaw has been discovered. If they expect to remain competitive in the antivirus market their updates must happen daily or weekly like all the other companies.