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The Netscaping of Symantec and McAfee 385

rs232 writes to mention a C|Net article about the uncertain future of the popular anti-virus software companies. "I mention Netscape because, if you believe Symantec and McAfee, a similar situation is about to unfold within the security industry. Microsoft, again recognizing late that it had failed to seize upon this thing called security, is now about to bundle its own security solutions within Windows Vista and further enforce new security policies that lock out some third-party security solutions altogether. Vendors Symantec and McAfee have looked into the future and realized that people may one day speak of them in the way that we now speak reverently of the early builds of Netscape."

Comment Re:As an IT person who is deploying OS X (Score 1) 779

Regardless of the merits or motives of Symantec's prognostications, as I have told my clients, just because there are no viruses or malware in Mac OS X, it doesn't mean that there won't be a really nasty one released in the next five minutes. Better safe than sorry. The other reason to have anti-virus software on Mac OS X, is to prevent those Mac OS X workstations from unwittingly passing on PC/Windows centric viruses. This is especially important in multi-platform environments.

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