Free Antivirus from Microsoft: Can We Trust It?

      by Wyatt Walter

For those who haven’t heard, Microsoft has decided to discontinue its OneCare product and release its own free antivirus. This concept of a Microsoft antivirus really has me baffled. I don’t understand why anyone would use an antivirus for Windows made by Microsoft. I especially don’t understand why anyone would pay for it, for sure. No matter how its spun by the marketing department, I just can’t believe the horrid logic happening here. Why in the world would I trust the same company that couldn’t protect the operating system to begin with to build my antivirus software? It makes no sense. I’m not even going to touch on the anticompetitive suits that will inevitably come out of this situation.

What would be an acceptable change? Why don’t we take the things learned by developing this antivirus and build them into the operating system to stop the attack before it happens instead of trying to detect and stop an attack while it’s happening. Okay, I understand that it’s slightly more complicated than that. But seriously? An antivirus for an operating system made by the same company as the operating system? Ugh. Next I think I’m going to take out an insurance policy against my insurance policy.

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