Microsoft pushes further into anti-virus and anti-spyware territory
Network Security · 2005
Microsoft bought another piece of the IT security market this month with its recent acquisition of anti-virus company, Sybari Software. Bill Gates announced at the RSA show in San Francisco that Microsoft will release a new a-v scanning engine based on the acquired technology. The resulting product will also come from technology gleaned from Microsoft's acquisition of the Romanian anti-virus vendor, GeCAD in 2003. The big question is, however, whether, a-v protection will come bundled with the Microsoft operating system. Microsoft already plans to give a spyware program away free to PC consumers. It has released a beta version of Spynet, which already has five million downloads so far. However the industry is still in the dark about how the company will make its future anti-virus offering available.