Microsoft moves against spyware with Giant acquisition
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Microsoft has purchased Giant Company Software, a small anti-spyware software company it hopes will shore up its security defenses.
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InfoWorld - Google has jumped into the anti-malware market, snatching up browser-based security software maker GreenBorder Technologies for an undisclosed amount of money.
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Anti-spyware company had granted another company rights to its software.
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According to a story on CNN&#39;s Web site, the software giant&#39;s recent acquisition of anti-spyware company GIANT might mean users have to pay in order to benefit from the added security to Microsoft applications.
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Microsoft Corp.  began offering anti-spyware program downloads for Windows users on Thursday, taking the first step in offering its own computer security products and sending shares of security software vendors lower.
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Microsoft, on Thursday, announced its decision to purchase anti-spyware firm, Giant Software Company, for an undisclosed amount. The reason for this move is merely the fact that Microsoft is willing to provide anti-spyware tools to its customers.
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Microsoft Corp. is investigating a malicious program that attempts to turn off the company's newly released anti-spyware software for Windows computers.
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The company unveils the first version of a spyware-killing application based on technology from recently acquired Giant Software.
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Computer Associates said Monday it acquired PestPatrol, a firm marketing anti-spyware software to enterprises, small businesses and individual consumers.
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Computer Associates has acquired PestPatrol, a company that markets antispyware software, for an undisclosed sum and plans to incorporate PestPatrol's products into its eTrust Threat Management software suite.
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The Federal Trade Commission won an important victory last week in its fight to protect consumers from spyware, the software that tracks unsuspecting Web surfers, bombards them with advertisements and sometimes even steal login information and passwords.
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Big Bill's bruisers buy their way out of the spyware mess.
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Microsoft Corp. today announced that it has acquired GIANT Company Software Inc., a provider of top-rated anti-spyware and Internet security products.
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Microsoft's beta version of its Windows AntiSpyware application is available for download.
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Stepping up its fight against computer threats at the risk of alienating security businesses, Microsoft Corp. announced Tuesday it will give away a program to combat privacy-stealing and PC-clogging spyware and other virtual pests.
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Microsoft is investigating a program that attempts to switch off the firm's anti-spyware software.
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Computer users already associate Microsoft Corp. software with spyware and viruses. But the company hopes to someday be better known for eradicating them, not attracting them.