I believe the companies that make antivirus software are responsible for covertly creating computer viruses in order to promote their own products and services. Are they paying someone on the side to create the viruses? Does anybody else think this is happening? Should antivirus be a free part of Microsoft Windows Operating Systems?
Windows Live One Care has a free online virus scan and it works pretty well. Live One care also has a firewall and antivirus, antispam, and antispyware that is much better than Defender. If anybody knows windows the best it is Microsoft. Norton, McAfee and the other aftermarket programs slow down your computer and keep you from being productive, they cause more problems than what they are supposed to protect you from.
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11 responses so far ↓
1 jojoyohan // Apr 3, 2008
No, no and no.
2 The Great Poomba // Apr 3, 2008
only people that wear tin foil hats believe this is happening. There are enough crazy people out there coding up viruses so that antivirus companies don't have to bother. I definitely don't think an antivirus should be part of windows. Microsoft started including a firewall with windows and a lot of good that did. It would've been better if they never included it in the first place so it doesn't give people false sense of security.
3 mick f // Apr 3, 2008
GEEEEEEEEEEEEE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! no
4 Kat the Great // Apr 3, 2008
Yeah it happens, the same way they hold back the newest technology until they have made enough sales and profit from their latest releases… would not surprise me at all… every industry has their secrets…
5 snowmafo // Apr 3, 2008
i would say symantic does. but about paying someone on the side? maybe their own employees… about microsoft adding it in? no way. They have their "windows Defender" but that does nothing.
6 J-ville boy // Apr 3, 2008
I highly doubt it because there are enough viruses out there.
7 chfields // Apr 3, 2008
Thats like saying the hospitals create diseases to increase business.
8 Dacooter // Apr 3, 2008
Yeah the best anti-virus i have found " not a virus" the program is Avg anti-virus Free edition
9 Joshua A // Apr 3, 2008
I have always wondered about that. It would be possible but I don't think they do. There are "anti-virus programs" that are promoted by spyware that offer to scan your computer for free and then want you to pay money to remove "system errors" that the program says it found. Those programs do not work and if you have a virus problem and you let them install on your computer things will just get worse. Microsoft makes Anti-virus software but if it was a defalt program that came with windows it would just give people another thing to complain about. And people would just shut it off and install something else anyway.
10 magicjosh5 // Apr 3, 2008
Yes some companies out there actually do create viruses and then you get a prompt saying that you have a virus and you need their software to get rid of it. i had this happen to me but of course I didn't buy the software. I took a screen shot of it at the time. Check it out in the description.
11 jibbarjabar // Apr 3, 2008
False.
It's all about organised criminal gangs making money, these days.
The anti-virus vendors have quite enough work to do just keeping up with the new malware variants these organised crime gangs release. The vendors do not need to produce their own malware.
Perhaps Eugene Kaspersky, founder of anti-virus maker Kaspersky Labs said it best, " It's a different world today. 10 years ago, we were fighting against smart kids who hacked as a hobby. Now, we're dealing with criminal gangs that control your computer to make money. Different world, different protections."
From: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2074772,00.asp?kc=EWEWEMNL121806EP2
"Most of today's Internet criminals are operating from Russia, China and Southern America. Over the next five years, there will be a significant increase in attacks from Central America, India, China and Africa, according to a prediction from security specialists."
"Malware creation hotspots growing in the former Soviet countries (such as Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Lithuania, Latvia). Other major areas of criminal activity are Brazil and China, which have large numbers of individuals with sophisticated computing skills but without the job opportunities to make a living for themselves in the IT sector. Online crime often presents a more lucrative path to raising living standards for people like these."
From: http://www.f-secure.com/f-secure/pressroom/news/fsnews_20080117_1_eng.html
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Microsoft would be facing major U.S. anti-trust violations if they ever tried to include a "free" anti-virus as part of Windows. Just as they faced when they had the audicity to include a free browser (Internet Explorer) with Windows years ago. It just ain't gonna happen.
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