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17th December 2004, 09:50
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| Madshrimp  Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium
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 |  Microsoft buys security company SOFTWARE BEHEMOTH Microsoft has bought a New York firm which makes software that fights spam and spyware. The firm called Giant is small and only has 12 employees, and because it's privately owned, no-one apart from the top nobs knows what it's paid for the company. µ more info @ http://www.giantcompany.com/intro.ht...tispyware.aspx src: http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=20272 I installed GIANT on my parents PC because neither Adaware or Spybot were able to remove a lingering spyware, the GIANT soft did the trick 
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17th December 2004, 18:21
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 | MS buys antispyware company My favorite source of information on spyware trends just got purchased by MS and all of the data I usually get from that site is no longer available  After PestPatrol was purchased by CA it went downhill rather fast so hopefully MS will keep GIANT on a good route. I'm not happy about the data being pulled though thats for sure!http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/p...-16GIANTPR.asp
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17th December 2004, 19:03
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| Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium
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| double post Lazyman! 
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17th December 2004, 19:05
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| Double visions
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19th December 2004, 21:19
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| [M] Reviewer/HWBot ***** Join Date: May 2002
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| Step 1: build insecure OS with built in browser Step 2: ??? Step 3: profit! ... well, at least we now know what step 2 is.
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19th December 2004, 21:24
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| Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium
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| they have been buying up firms for years now remember the Simpsons episode where Homer's internet firm was bought by M$?
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19th December 2004, 21:58
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| Yeah, that was a funny episode.  |
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