toptechnews.com — Microsoft has detailed its forthcoming privacy and security plans, which incorporates antivirus technology from recently acquired Sybari, and enhanced anti-phishing software. "Anti-phishing will definitely be built in to IE 7," said Brendon Lynch, senior privacy strategist at Microsoft.
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r00t3d0utJul 9, 2005
I can't help it but to say that Microsoft is offering too little too late. All they [seem] to be doing is following the paths already made by both Firefox and Opera. The thing that really gets my goat is that no one ever mentions the extensions that can added to Firefox to make the browser more powerful/functional. Will IE7 offer extensions?
oaklawntek1Jul 9, 2005
GREAT.....lets relay on MIcrosoft to protect us. Gonna be that same garbage that AOL has too, stripped down versions of no good software. Can't wait to pick the hole is the package........internet exploder 7 sucks..firefox w0ot!!!!
jammerdelrayJul 9, 2005
antiphishing is going to be in the browser not antivirus.....I use netscape 8.0 and the antiphishing works great....it uses a list from etrust and verisign that is updated often...all of you that are saying IE 7 is bloatware have not even tried it with it still in beta....so come on....wait til it comes out then you can say that kinda stuff....I happen to like microsoft now that there are those haters out there hahaha
mercury81Jul 9, 2005
well unfortunately when you have a mainstream product that a lot of people use you are going to have a lot of idiots using it, not everyone is a power user. I'm curious how this anti-phishing thing is going to work, is it going to be like Netcraft's toolbar?
compismyrxJul 13, 2005
Giving IE7 an antivirus is like giving a lukemia patient a new liver. It's pointless as hell, because it's IE's fault for having such horrible, non-standardized rendering engines.
caffinedropJul 17, 2005
"ACTIVE X"...nuff said