Closed Socket Tech News.

Who hasn't seen this coming? They bought a romanian anti-virus company last year and, at that time, claimed that they weren't going to make a product, but instead wanted to have more information to better interoperate with existing anti-virus products.
Not that having built in anti-virus protection in Windows is a bad thing, lots of people fail to update their software, but it should be interesting to see how many AV companies die from this.
Geek.com Geek News - Microsoft to launch anti-virus product line: "Late last year the Redmond software giant acquired GeCAD Software, a Romanian-based software company, and all of GeCAD's existing anti-virus technology"

posted by Jordan @ 6/21/2004 10:28:00 AM