MS Tackle Spyware!

[blobrana]

Hum,
Update:
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 "Soon after Microsoft announced their new anti-spyware offering, I went to download it, and discovered (as everyone else has) that they confusingly hide the actual download behind a process designed to guarantee that you have an authorized version of Windows running.
 If you read the instructions carefully, you can get around actually running that check. While my version of Windows is perfectly legitimate, I saw no reason to tell Microsoft about it again and avoided the authorization check process.

 However, others are beginning to wonder why Microsoft is forcing people to prove they have a legitimate version of Windows just to download their anti-spyware application. After all, the whole reason Microsoft needs to offer this product is because they can't be bothered to actually fix some of their security holes.
This sets up a weird set of incentives for Microsoft, whereby they might think they're better off pushing out buggy code, and then only allowing authorized users to patch it, as a way to catch those who are unauthorized.
 It seems unlikely that Microsoft would actually stoop this low, but there have to be better ways to work on getting more authorized copies of Windows out there."

From techdirt.com


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But apart from that i like it....

[blobrana]

Hum,
yeah i agree.
Though i could think up of a simple future scenario of M$ cornering the spam/spyware/viri checker market (with little competition), and those people who don’t or can’t download it (because they don’t have a licence key) will infect others with genuine windows etc...

The software is only as good as the speed of the updates; the virus/flaw usually comes first - then the patches....

[blobrana]

Hum,
Yeah, well it’s free...
(er, like viruses)

But i suppose if M$ had made a secure produce in the first place, then there wouldn’t be all those jobs created to fix it...
Prepare thyself for 13 security updates on February 8th...
(for Windows, Office, Media Player, Messenger, Sharepoint and Framework...)