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Antivirus space suddenly crowded with Microsoft in the room (SearchSecurity.com)
Microsoft made its long-anticipated leap into the antivirus market with an announcement Tuesday that it will acquire Romanian firm GeCAD Software Srl. Analysts and competitors detail the expected impact on the market and what the deal means for customers.
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Analyst: MS antivirus to take shape in Longhorn (CNET)
A Forrester analyst writes that enterprises should stay the course with their current antivirus vendors, but expects Microsoft's acquisition of GeCAD Software's antivirus technology to take shape in 2005 with the Longhorn version of Windows. Administrators will not have a choice to make until then. Competing vendors, meanwhile, will diversify more into intrusion detection and security management.
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Keyboard putting you at risk for carpal tunnel? Danes doubt it
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There goes another good excuse to retire early. According to some researchers in Denmark, the possibility that a computer keyboard will give you carpal tunnel syndrome is small. They studied about 7,000 workers over the course of a year and found that between 1.4% and 4.8% possibly had the affliction -- a small enough percentage for the researchers to proclaim that computer use "does not pose a severe occupational hazard for developing [the] symptoms" -- provided you don't use the keyboard like Jerry Lee Lewis used the piano.
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