[CS-FSLUG] MICROSOFT RELEASES ANTISPYWARE, PROMISES MORE TOOLS

[Don Parris]

On Mon, 2005-01-10 at 18:52 -0800, Jerry Van Brimmer wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 18:17:53 -0500, Fred A. Miller <fmiller at lightlink.com>  
> wrote:
> 
> > You have to be able to design good software and then follow up with good  
> > code.
> > Things MickySoft has NEVER been able to do.
> >
> > Fred
> > ______________________
> >
> > MICROSOFT RELEASES ANTISPYWARE, PROMISES MORE TOOLS
> >
> > Microsoft on Thursday released a free trial copy of antispyware software
> > it purchased last month, marking the company's entry into the
> > fast-growing market for products that block surreptitious snooping
> > programs, and promised monthly releases of tools to stop new malicious
> > software.
> 
> That's cool. Produce software that invites malware (virii, bots, worms,  
> trojans, etc.), and then sell more software that "protects" from the  
> faulty stuff you produced in the first place. MS has truly got the world  
> hoodwinked. I'm sorry, but they have lost my trust. Why would I trust them  
> to "protect" my computer, if the very software they produced, caused the  
> problem in the first place? Huh? Is anybody really going to fall for this?  
> Yes, I'm afraid millions will. The blind leading the blind.
> 
> 
> >
> > http://newsletter.infoworld.com/t?ctl=AE201E:1F5C3D3
> >
> 
> 
Does this remind anyone else of the radar detector game?

Don