Microsoft to install AV engine in Windows
InfoWorld | at | by Mike
Vendors like to visit technology journalists from time to time, say hello, hand out a T-shirt or a logo mug, and then demo the latest version of whatever product they're selling. They're demo meetings, pure and simple.
Years back, I attended one of these demo meetings with a large anti-virus software vendor who must remain nameless. Being me, I surrendered to my sophomoric sense of humor and deadpanned a joke about how AV vendors must be paying virus writers in third-world countries so they could stay in business. The room got real quiet real fast. Apparently, AV marketing professionals don't think that joke is funny.