Re: FREE VIRUS SCANNER BY MS ?

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From: Peter A. Stavrakoglou (ntotrr_at_optonline.net)
Date: 09/03/04 

Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2004 11:45:34 -0400

"Michael Solomon (MS-MVP Windows Shell/User)" <user@#notme.com> wrote
in message news:%23mOMwPYkEHA.3552@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> Given the anti-trust implications and the number of big companies
out there
> that would stand to lose if Microsoft did such a thing, I don't
think it's
> going to happen. That doesn't preclude their introducing their own
stand
> alone application but that doesn't raise the same anti-trust issues
as
> building it into the OS.

Not only that, but there's more money to be made in selling an AV app
separately along with the yearly upgrade path.