Comments on: Google Bringing Anti-Virus Tools to Google Desktop?

By: Jonah

Jonah — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 20:40:00 +0000

And now Google DOES have a browser…
NEIL FTW

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By: Mario

Mario — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 19:19:51 +0000

Who uses this Desktop? Googol Deskbar more useful, that’s for sure.

By: Alan Marks

Alan Marks — Thu, 31 May 2007 13:58:55 +0000

There is one thing that Google applications are good at:
Taking information from other sources and installing it into the G-app.

There is one thing that Google applications are bad at:
Giving information to other applications.

This means that you can transfer the information from other programs which you were using previously, but not transfer them out if you don’t want to use it any more. This means that people will often be stuck with somehting that they don’t want any more.

By: medina

medina — Wed, 30 May 2007 19:29:48 +0000

can any one say – Ma bell {AT&T} what happened to them when they got too big??????
As wonderful as all the Google wonder and improvements may sound – too much can be too much…….

By: JDsBlog

JDsBlog — Wed, 30 May 2007 10:54:56 +0000

Google Buys GreenBorder Technologies…

What does a+b+c equal? It equals Google in two years.
Google is continuing on their binge of buying smaller, transparent startups for their technology and resources. Their latest acquisition being Greenborder Technologies, a venture backed company th…

By: David Mackey

David Mackey — Wed, 30 May 2007 02:25:15 +0000

Interesting move on Google’s part, especially considering Microsoft’s recent toward anti-virus protection with Forefront and OneCare.

By: David Scott Lewis

David Scott Lewis — Wed, 30 May 2007 02:20:02 +0000

What would be really, truly cool is if Google bought Spyware Doctor or Spy Sweeper (i.e., PC Tools, Webroot), kept up with the technology, and gave it away for free. Ad-Aware wouldn’t be a bad choice, either. Let’s face it, GreenBorder alone isn’t enough.

Let’s go further: AVG Anti-Virus and Anti-Rootkit (Grisoft) and Jetico Personal Firewall. Both are already free, but coupling them with a GAM (Google Anti-Malware) package would be great (and I suspect Grisoft and Jetico would welcome an acquisition by Google).

Sandboxing by Greenborder. Anti-spyware by PC Tools or Webroot. Anti-virus and anti-rootkit by Grisoft. Firewall by Jetico.

Next: TOR. Make it native. Of course, Google should be a key contributor to TOR’s infrastructure. And, finally, why not offer an OpenVPN solution? This seems like a natural for Google. (If they offer an OpenVPN solution, they don’t really need to offer TOR. No point, as long as they offer some level of anonymous surfing and random IP assignment.)

Sandboxing. Anti-spyware. Anti-virus. Firewall. VPN. Winner: Google!!

Bottom line: If Google controls our data, they should protect it as well. This was one of Microsoft’s greatest mistakes. Google’s approach: Protect me from getting cancer. Microsoft’s approach: Radical surgery after I get cancer. Which strategy do you prefer?

By: RaJesh Anandakrishnan

RaJesh Anandakrishnan — Tue, 29 May 2007 22:51:32 +0000

Another Free software from google. Don’t know will it be as powerful as mcafee or other giants

http://www.sugg...stusability.com

By: kundojjala

kundojjala — Tue, 29 May 2007 21:05:54 +0000

hope it’ll not be a disaster like One care..

By: Ron Palmeri

Ron Palmeri — Tue, 29 May 2007 19:52:52 +0000

Congrats Bernard and team. hope it was a nice outcome.

By: Munir Umrani

Munir Umrani — Tue, 29 May 2007 19:22:06 +0000

What is the purpose of Michael Birch’s comment? How does racial slurs add to the conversation about Google buying GreenBorder?

By: isedb.com

isedb.com — Tue, 29 May 2007 18:35:06 +0000

Google Bringing Anti-Virus Tools to Google Desktop?…

The purchase may indicate a renewed focus by Google on desktop applications. GreenBorder provides an anti-virus platform that combined with Google Desktop would deliver a more compelling download and strength Google’s position as a desktop applicatio…

By: jc

jc — Tue, 29 May 2007 17:59:41 +0000

Should be interesting what type of direction they take this, free, or pay. I say it’s great for desktop folks.

By: UpstartThis

UpstartThis — Tue, 29 May 2007 17:24:53 +0000

Google’s acquisition of GreenBorder is a strategic move towards their view of accessing any data anywhere. Now that they have all kinds of data, they may be having some ideas of caching, storing and security it locally on our machines. Whether its a browser of google Desktop, Google wants to have users glued to its brand for anything that revolves over data. So tomorrow we can think of data and right away refer to Google’s software.

By: Crenk

Crenk — Tue, 29 May 2007 16:55:53 +0000

I am looking foward to seeing this in the google pack!

http://www.crenk.com

By: matt

matt — Tue, 29 May 2007 16:46:31 +0000

Google Desktop aggressively protects all of the default search settings in Internet Explorer and Firefox (setting them to Google and keeping them there). I think some of what they do crosses the line into malware territory.

By: David Scott Lewis

David Scott Lewis — Tue, 29 May 2007 15:51:45 +0000

Too bad they didn’t buy Blink. But GreenBorder was still a great choice. I’m looking forward to having sandbox protection couple with Google Desktop.

By: Dekut.com

Dekut.com — Tue, 29 May 2007 15:20:11 +0000

Google Bringing Anti-Virus Tools to Google Desktop?…

Google has continued on its acquisition blitzkrieg with news that Google has acquired Mountain View neighbor GreenBorder for an undisclosed sum….

By: DinoHorse

DinoHorse — Tue, 29 May 2007 14:13:21 +0000

I honestly don’t like Google going into the security industry. Antivirus and Security related solutions should be governed by industry specific companies, not I-Do-It-All companies like Google.

By: pallet jack

pallet jack — Tue, 29 May 2007 14:02:15 +0000

Why couldn’t they buy AntiVAst – its my fav free antivirus …. has a boot scan and everything –

By: Neil

Neil — Tue, 29 May 2007 14:00:06 +0000

.no the brower won’t have to have ads in at all. It just needs to have Google as the default search engine. If Firefox is making 100 Million a year from this, then why can’t google take back some of the pie. After the current bubble pops, I’m sure people are going to think that 100 mill is actually a nice amount of money. Also, Google can show more contextually appropriate ads (not more ads per se) by linking browser activity and contextual ad serving. The one thing google doesn’t have a grip on at the moment, is what users do once they leave the search engine – sure they are getting a better understading via Google analytics but bearing in mind they are planning on a phone, a browser seems quite a small step to be honest – more like “why didnt they do the ages ago?”

By: xxdesmus

xxdesmus — Tue, 29 May 2007 13:46:57 +0000

I couldn’t disagree more with Neil.

We all know that any Google browser will be covered in context based ads.

I for one (and I know plenty of other people would agree with me) will never use such a disgusting ad-ridden product when a free, clean, quality product like Firefox exists.

@Michael Birch please die. Thanks.