Microsoft today announced the beta test of Microsoft OneCare. In case you haven’t heard of OneCare, this is Microsoft’s anti-virus “solution.”
Doesn’t it seem odd that MS builds insecure software and then wants to sell us a second product to secure it?
Isn’t this like buying a brand-new-but-broken safe from the store and then paying the same store an annual maintenance fee to try to secure the brand new safe?
In case you aren’t aware, three of the pieces of software which are most susceptible to attack are Microsoft Outlook Express, Microsoft Outlook, and Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE). Most home users, and many office users, can safely replace Outlook Express and Outlook with Mozilla Thunderbird and can safely replace Internet Explorer with Mozilla Firefox.
Both Thunderbird and Firefox are free and you can download them from Mozilla.org.
