Cartoon 001 – Antivirus Wars
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January 1, 2007, 10:30 am
Filed under: Anti Virus
Filed under: Anti Virus
When the AV firms finally woke up to Microsoft entering the desktop security market what did they do?
A. Innovate their way out of the impending onslaught
B. Diversify their risk
C. Start crying
The correct answer is of course “C”. Among the temper tantrums and stamping of the feet they all lobbied the powers that be to open up Patchguard, a technology that was aimed to protect the Windows kernel from malicious attacks. The result; MSFT was forced to create an API so people could get access; very handy if you are a malware developer I suspect?
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