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"~BD~" <BoaterDave@hotmail.co.uk> wrote in message
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> David Kaye wrote:
>> ~BD~<BoaterDave@hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>> Were *you* notified by Microsoft about this new pdf file David?
>>>
>>
>> I get security bulletins from various sources automatically for Windows and
>> for Ubuntu and Mandriva Linux. What you posted is a layman's pdf of Security
>> Essentials, which is essentially a security suite Microsoft bought about 2
>> years ago. It is nothing new or amazing.
>>
>
> David,
>
> You said "... bought about 2 years ago."
>
> That's the first I've heard about that. I'd understood MSE to have been developed
> internally by Microsoft itself.
>
> From which company did Microsoft purchase MSE?
>
> I do remember them buying Giant which they subsequently branded as Antispyware,
> then Windows Defender, but have heard nothing at all about about a purchase of MSE
> under any name at all. Seems odd.
>
> The *document* is new - 27 March 2010. I was surprised that you had seen it
> already, being busy as you are. Oh well!
>
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> Dave