Microsoft's free antivirus: Is this an apology?
Sometimes 'free' is not worth the price
Who should know more about PC threats than the company whose software makes most of them possible? Is
Microsoft also badly needs to do something to add zing to the Windows 7 release. That’s zing, not Bing, which will, presumably, already be in Windows 7. Maybe Morro is supposed to be the feature people will upgrade to get.
Morro’s real time anti-malware service, which will route all the URLs you want to visit by Microsoft first for a check against known malware sites, ought to be a winner. As quickly as Microsoft finds out about a malware location, it would immediately protect Morro users from the site.
Of course, this requires that the Morro servers not slow down the user’s browser performance and raises privacy concerns. What will Microsoft do with all your browsing data? Nothing too bad, I suspect, but it’s always worth wondering and asking.
clipped from: computerworld.co.nz