How Come Microsoft Updates Sunbelts CounterSpy With Spyware Definitions?
Sunbelt is not “licensing the code from Microsoft”. Microsoft acquired our anti-spyware business partner Giant Software. There is a whole story here, but in short, this is what Microsoft states on its website: “Anti-spyware solutions require definition updates-signatures of known spyware and other unwanted software-that are necessary to keep the solutions up-to-date. Because of a legal agreement between Sunbelt Software and Giant that preceded the Microsoft acquisition, Microsoft will provide spyware signature updates to Sunbelt through July 2007.” There is a separate link to a Sunbelt Company Newsletter called Stu’s News where you can find all the background information. How We Can Fight Spyware Together: ThreatNet New spyware is constantly created by unethical companies for financial gain. Cybercriminals change their malicious code regularly trying to escape discovery. That’s why Sunbelt created ThreatNet, a worldwide network of users who report on new spyware outbreaks to Sunbelt. W
