News Microsoft to release free anti-virus service

So it wasn't a good enough product for Microsoft to charge people for, so they release it for free? I bet that it will contain masses of advisories to update to W7, DL silverlight etc, to ensure your PC is 'fully protected'.

 

+1 Nod32, Antivirus only uses two processes and it catches everything i've thrown at it so far. Avast and AVG were giving me false positives for macros i had written and other mini programs, very annoying. I usually recommend AVG to people though definately before Norton or Mcafee.
Turbotab got in there before me, i was thinking the same about advisories. Would Windows accept you using different av and firewall software and shut up or would you be constantly hounded till you got theirs?

 

Even with antivirus software, my computer is never the same after an infection. The only real way of fixing a virused computer is to reformat, and it's really not a bother. You eventually learn to have all your to-be-moved files in easy to copy places..

 

LOLTOTALWTFBBQ! Any of you been reading up on rants to Microsoft about pre-installed Internet Explorer (which in my oppinion is perfectly good of Microsoft to have it installed by default)? I wonder what AVG, McAffee, etc, will think to this lol!

 

If you can run a scan of a file when you want, but it doesn't run the rest of the time then I will use it. I don't need an anti virus product all the time its only when I am working with someone I don't trust's data. I have not been using any anti virus at all for the past 6 years and I have not had a single virus. As soon as you install Nortons or McAffe you can litterally feel your whole system slowing down.

The thing about needing a full internet security package is bollox. The firewall that comes in Windows is perfectly fine and I don't need something to tell me I have half a million tracking cookies which are obviously SO bad.

 

"Microsoft is planning to release a free anti-virus service that it says its employees are already testing in house."

so that means...

"No Honey, i am supposed to download porn FOR WORK! it is testing"

 

In house means inside the company not at home.