Comments on: Gates: Microsoft to offer anti-spyware

Company Chairman Bill Gates says "this malware thing is so bad" the software giant plans to offer its own tools.

[Tex Murphy PI]

Let me beat everyone to the punchline

Will the Microsoft anti-spyware tool also clean out the spyware in Windows XP and their respective Microsoft Ads?

I thought I'd get a jump on the Mac/Linux/Unix fans to that question!

:)

Some obvious advice for Mr. Gates...

Quote: "I have had malware, (adware), that crap" on some home machines, he said.

Should have been using Linux then!

[techesq]

You've gotta be kidding...

Microsoft's horrible security holes are the reason spyware exists in the first place. If this is a fee based service then it's not much different than a car dealership charging you extra to install the engine in your car.

Golly, Bill, maybe we should have thought twice about integrating IE into every facet of the O/S. Maybe we should have thought about the security implications of Active X controls and Browser Helper Objects before we unleashed these wide open back doors on an unsuspecting public...

Nah... Let's release a terrible product and then charge its users to fix it. Thanks Micro$oft. Your're swell!

[simcity1976]

I don't

Blame MS for This crap, I blame the spammers and advertisers for it. They started it. As for the holes in windows, there are also holes in linux / Mac for these spyware companys to attach to. don't think for a min that it doesn't exist.

Microsoft---> Anti-Malware---> No Way

I for one will nto be rushing out to get any anti-maleware produt that Microsoft releases, let alone any anti-virus program. They are Big, and Rich, but think about what that has already cost us as consumers.

I am waiting for the Induce act to go through if it does... It will be Interesting the nuber of lawsuits filed against Microsoft for creating and maintaining the operating platform that allows such copyrght infringement software and hardware both to run. This is inevitable if this law passes... If the hardware manufacturer is responsible, So is every software vendor that makes software that could possibly be used to copy or circumvent copy protection...

This is all getting out of hand....
Gates and his claim for biometrics... what will that accomplish.... oh yeah it will generate more money for him, since he already has stuff in place and rteady to market..

[metmichallica]

This is great news

I can't wait till get rid of PestPatrol to get this. PestPatrol what do they know about spyware? (sarcasm people)

The only way I would end up using this other anti-spyware product by microsoft if it were free, and it probably won't be.