Microsoft to offer antivirus solution

[Keefe]

It looks like Microsoft is turning their sights on Trend, Mcafee, and Symantec. Soon the giant will be offering an antivirus solution that will be sold separetly of its operating systems.

"Microsoft Corp. is still on track to offer an anti-virus product that will compete against similar software offered by Symantec Corp. and Network Associates Inc., the world's largest software maker said late on Monday.

Mike Nash, chief of Microsoft's security business unit, told reporters that Microsoft is developing software to protect personal computers running Windows against malicious software, the worms and viruses that have plagued users with data loss, shutdowns and disruptions in Web traffic in recent years."

I'd be scared of it because of how many bugs their software already has allowing viruses in....