Microsoft Readies Antispyware App

KingFishKingFish
edited January 2005 in Science & Tech
Microsoft is preparing for release to the public of a beta version of antispyware technology it purchased last month, but it will delay promised antispam and antivirus improvements to the Exchange e-mail server, according to information provided by the company.
Microsoft is on target to release a public beta of its antispyware software by January 16, one month after the company acquired the software by purchasing Giant Company Software, a company spokesperson says.

The Redmond, Washington, software maker will release a free evaluation version of Giant AntiSpyware, though a spokesperson declined to identify an exact release date, or to discuss the functionality to be included in the release program.

Microsoft would not comment on information published on Microsoft enthusiast Web site Neowin.net that a beta version of the software, code-named Atlanta, has already been distributed to internal testers. Neowin.net also posted screenshots supposedly taken from a product called Microsoft AntiSpyware.

The company commonly tests products internally first, a process it calls "dogfooding"; but the spokesperson would not say whether the antispyware software had been distributed to employees.
OMG let the jokes begin. -KF

Source: PC World

Comments

  • FormFactorFormFactor At the core of forgotten
    edited January 2005
    It's about flippin time! Hopefully it can remove spyware as well as prevent it. And it had better be free!
  • gibbonslgibbonsl Grand Forks AFB
    edited January 2005
    I am trying the beta right now ;)
  • GobblesGobbles Ventura California
    edited January 2005
    I installed it, it formated my system and installed FreeBSD.. ;D;D

    someone had to say it..
  • edcentricedcentric near Milwaukee, Wisconsin Icrontian
    edited January 2005
    I presume that this is verison 2002 that they are getting around to.

    What a business plan. Sell faulty product, sell fix for product, but make sure that it isn't perfect so that you can do it again.
  • mmonninmmonnin Centreville, VA
    edited January 2005
    It found some things that arent really spyware.
  • maxanonmaxanon Montreal
    edited January 2005
    edcentric wrote:
    I presume that this is verison 2002 that they are getting around to.

    What a business plan. Sell faulty product, sell fix for product, but make sure that it isn't perfect so that you can do it again.

    Can you name one piece of OS that doesn't have faults? Now, let thousands of hackers (well, maybe a few hundred of those that aren't script kids) try to attack it. I predict the same. Heck, people can crap out blackberries.

    For all of MS's faults there's a reason why they still dominate the OS scene. Strong business practices and (very) good software. This piece of software may help but will probably gain them more ridicule.
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited January 2005
    Insecurity through popularity. Happens all the time..

    Let me point out the rise in news bites on the web citing hacks for linux, or flaws in Mozilla-based browsers as they gain popularity.
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