Use Internet Explorer and pay to be “spyware free’
Microsoft purchased a anti-spyware/anti-trojan (remote control software) program from Giant. After putting the Microsoft brand on it, they are now beta testing this software with the purpose of helping Windows users rid themselves of the very software that their own product allows on Windows computers so easily.
That is - Internet Explorer is known the world over as a sort of venus flytrap for viruses, spyware and trojans. It literally attracts them. And as Microsoft will gladly tell you, Internet Explorer is built into the Windows operating system. Not just a part of it mind you either, but a major part of Windows, without which Windows would ‘fail to operate’.
it turns out that Microsoft is leaving it’s options open as to whether or not to charge YOU for deficiencies in it’s own software.
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Will users be prepared to pay extra for tools from Microsoft to clean up the malware mess that is almost the exclusive preserve of the Windows desktop?
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{Giving a presentation at a security conference in London Wednesday, Detlef Eckert, chief security adviser for Microsoft} stated that he thinks that they might - although he emphasized that Microsoft has made no firm decision. “Users value investment and there is a willingness to pay for it,” he said.
You buy the snake oil, then you get the privilege of paying for the cure…
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» Paula Lee
05/6/05 @ 3:25 pm
I do not feel I should be charged for the problems coming up on the internet when I had nothing to do with them. Please furnish this to me free of charge.
» Dan
05/8/05 @ 4:40 pm
What you shouldn’t be charged for Paula, is weeknesses in your operating system, whatever it is.
Problems don’t usually “come up” on “the Internet” problems are simply TRANSMITTED (or sent) across the Internet, as are the webpages that you read.
For it to _BE_ a problem, the problem has to exist at the location of the recipient (your computer) and most of these same problems could hit you from a floppy or CD as well.
However, note that in a later article listed here:
http://itdiaries.com/2005/02/16/anti-spyware-tool-to-be-issued-with-windows-free/
Microsoft reversed their earlier statement and decided to give the anti-spyware product away free.