• Windows Live OneCare available now

    Posted on May 31, 2006 at 07:19 CDT by • Comment in the Forums

    Tell me if this burns you up.

    Microsoft just announced that the long-anticipated anti-virus/anti-everything service, Windows Live OneCare is now available for purchase. It’s, uh, Live.

    The very first item on OneCare’s main page? The Word 0day security hole I wrote about almost two weeks ago. Microsoft calls it “Exploit:Win32/Wordjmp” and identifies it as a “moderate” risk.

    So let me see if I understand this. Microsoft doesn’t have the security patch for this particular hole ready. They may or may not release the patch on June’s Patch Tuesday.

    But Microsoft will sell you protection, if you buy Windows Live OneCare, today.

    As John Dvorak wrote in his PC Mag column last October:

    Does Microsoft think it is going to get away with charging real money for any sort of add-on, service, or new product that protects clients against flaws in its own operating system? Does the existence of this not constitute an incredible conflict of interest? Why improve the base code when you can sell “protection”? Is Frank Nitti the new CEO?

    ‘Tis a crazy world we live in….

    Windows Patches/Security
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