McAfee and Symantec, among others have accused Microsoft of not cooperating with them by giving them access to Windows Vista's core so it can be tested and new products created to help secure it from the third party vendors. Microsoft's stigma is always that they are involved in anti-trust activities, which McAfee and Symantec could be trying to exploit here. Anti-Virus company Kaspersky doesn't think so. McAfee's open letter to Microsoft pretty much accuses them of wanting world domination over both the computing and security markets, but Kaspersky says Microsoft has remained cooperative despite McAfee and Symantec's whining. I don't doubt Microsoft's desire for maniacal dominance of the world, but every other company starts out wanting the same thing, so this is nothing new. Are they cooperating or not?
Microsoft is being cooperative, Kaspersky says
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10-09-2006 @ 3:59PM
LDM said...
You have to remeber these are the same two compnies that said thier virus scan doesn't work in vista due to kernl chnages, but both have a working beta of an antivirus on vista
There's a list of other tivirus vendoprs who have no problem at all with vista. AVG for exmaple ha thier AVG antivirus working fully on windows without any problems.
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10-09-2006 @ 6:06PM
oneshot417 said...
Cooperative is a hard to define word, but thats microsoft..... in the end its all about money and personally if kaspersky is cool about it then thats good, because they are my favorite.
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10-12-2006 @ 7:05AM
Dan said...
One of the reasons Kaspersky is buddying up with Microsoft is probably that they are one of the anti-virus technology providers for Microsoft's Antigen software. It combines half a dozen or so fairly small (i.e. not Symantec/McAfee) anti-virus algorithms to provide live scanning for Exchange Server. A big deal like that probably curried Kaspersky's favour for some time to come...
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