Will Microsoft's Free Antivirus App be Worth the Price?

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[b]Will Microsoft's Free Antivirus App be Worth the Price?[/b]

Frank Ohlhorst
Jun 11, 2009 11:37 am

Microsoft is getting ready to offer Windows users a free antivirus product (code name Morro), something it should have built into one of its operating systems a long time ago. But, of course, Microsoft never makes things simple. So the big question is will Morro be worth the price?

http://www.pcworld.com/article/166513/will_microsofts_free_antivirus_app_be_worth_the_price.html

Slashdot discussion:
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/06/12/1237236

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It sounds good, will just have to wait and see.

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...something it should have built into one of its operating systems...

This statement doesn’t compute. Sure MS could do that and it would be great. But then again loads of ppl would be complaining over their yet another monopoly move. They demand better security, but when MS delivers it, they don’t want it anymore. Um?

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They demand better security for Windows itself but not another piece of software that usually turns out to be more a nice picture than a nice tool.

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Well, some things can’t be more secure with OS alone. For example against Fake AV’s. Only blacklisting works against that kind of crap.

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Hi friends here,

This is the second initiative of M$ where a free anti-malware solution is concerned. I think they should home in on what they are good at, and this av and for instance BING is not exactly their kettle of fish.
Patches and upgrades and their malware removal tool at patch Tuesday are their best assets, so make these services EXCELLent, make XP a good eXPerience, that is what I like MS to do, not build layer on layer on layer on layer,

polonus

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make XP a good eXPerience
They already have...... It's called Window 7. :) :)
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Great men think alike.

Wait until the EU has their way and have Microsoft reduced to the days of DOS trying to get their pound of flesh to let them in:
http://www.mmail.com.my/content/dos-were-days

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The EU is on a rampage to inflate their bank account. ::slight_smile:

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I’m waiting for them to tell Apple that they need to use cheaper hardware…

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This is seriously getting old… ::slight_smile:

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You left out proprietary.

Whatever happend to the Mac clone?
http://www.informationweek.com/news/hardware/mac/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=207200841

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There is nothing proprietary about Apple’s Current Hardware. The only thing different from most PCs is EFI, which is available to all computer manufacturers. I just bought a Lenovo Ideapad(running Ubuntu 9.04) that has EFI so its certainly not proprietary. What’s proprietary about their hardware?

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Smile Mac,
We’re pulling your chain… :slight_smile: ;D :slight_smile:

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Back to the topic, My concern is this: " Morro will work by routing all of a users Internet traffic to a Microsoft datacenter, where the Morro application will process the traffic and identify and block malware in real time, by examining all of the rerouted traffic."

This almost sounds like Panda’s “cloud” A/V, Which begs the question, What happens if your Internet connection is knocked out?

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No internet connection, almost no way of new malware going your way either.

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But, what if malware is able to stop your connection? Will this A/V still work? Will you still be able to scan your system?

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Except for USB drivers :wink:

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So if this is like a cloud AV, will it work alongside avast!? And will it be slow on dial up if all the traffic has to be re-routed?

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More details: http://blogs.zdnet.com/igeneration/?p=1832

So I would think it would be slow on dial up right? I also would imagine that it would be fine to run this side by side with avast!.