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"Microsoft to buy anti-virus firm Allison Linn The Associated Press February 9, 2005 SEATTLE - Microsoft Corp. yesterday announced plans to buy a company whose software aims to protect corporate networks from e-mail-borne threats and said it would sell a product based on the technology. The deal for Sybari Software Inc., along with word that Microsoft is readying its first set of antivirus products, could hurt security companies including Symantec Corp. and McAfee Inc., whose stock prices fell. The Sybari acquisition, terms of which were not disclosed, will produce Microsoft's first official separate paid antivirus offering, said Mike Nash, vice-president of Microsoft's security business and technology unit. Sybari of Northport, New York, has about 10,000 clients. Its software scans businesses' e-mail to try to ward off attacks. Mr. Nash said Microsoft would make the Sybari-based product, geared toward business customers, available under the Microsoft brand soon after the deal closes. Microsoft has not disclosed the product's cost. In an interview, Mr. Nash said Microsoft would subsequently release other products, for both consumers and business users, aimed at protecting computers from Internet-based attacks. Sybari is the latest security products company Microsoft has bought. It purchased a Romanian antivirus firm, GeCAD Software Srl., for an undisclosed amount in 2003." | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be February 22. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
