Watch Out McAfee and Symantec – Microsoft to Offer Free Antivirus Software
This post was published 5 months 12 days ago and its content may not be valid anymore.The ever targeted and much maligned OS, Windows, just got what I consider a surprising shot in the arm – for free! Microsoft, via Routers, let it slip that they are taking Symantec and McAfee head on with a free Antivirus package.
Microsoft Corpis getting ready to unveil a long-anticipated free anti-virus service for personal computers that will compete with products sold by Symantec Corp and McAfee Inc.
A Microsoft spokesman said on Wednesday that the world’s biggest software maker is testing an early version of the product with its own employees. Microsoft would “soon” make a trial version, or product beta, available via its website, he added, but declined to provide a specific date.
[...] Investors are closely monitoring the free service, code-named Morro after Brazil’s Morro de Sao Paolo beach, amid concern it could hurt sales of products from Symantec and McAfee, which generate billions of dollars of revenue a year protecting Windows PCs from attacks by hackers.
For consumers, I say this is a win. For Antivirus companies, I say this is litigation.
Thanks for the useful info. It’s so interesting
If Microsoft’s name is attached to it must be good!
Yeah, like Internet Explorer.
Avast! and AVG have offered a free version of their antivirus software for years. Microsoft is just trying to catch up.
So will Microsoft Rise or go down? Everyone seams to want to get Redwood down Not sure why may be its too evil but I think Google is more badder than Microsoft.