AOL To Give Away Anti-Virus Service
AOL is set to give away that which it sells at a premium -- its McAfee VirusScan Online anti-virus software.
Source: Internet News
Does it really suck that much that they have to give it away for free? -KFThe free service will be one of the services featured in the AOL 9.0 Security Edition due out next month, an update to the 70 MB AOL 9.0 Optimized offering it currently provides. AOL had originally charged $2.95 a month for the anti-virus scanning service and had said some two million users out of its roughly 23 million base had signed up. The Security Edition is designed to address existing and new customer concerns over safety and security on the Internet. Officials point to a study released by the National Cyber Security Alliance and AOL, which found that 67 percent of online users do not have anti-virus software on their computer. Of those surveyed, 19 percent have an active virus in their computer and 63 percent have had one in the past. "One of the most compelling needs for families today is to feel safer and more secure online, and we have made safety our top priority at AOL," Jon Miller, AOL chairman and CEO, said in a statement. "That's why we started scanning every member e-mail attachment for viruses -- blocking more than a billion last year -- and why we offer our members broad spyware protection for their computers."
Source: Internet News
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