Kaspersky defends Microsoft

Russian security vendor Kaspersky has jumped to the defence of Microsoft, refuting claims by rival security vendors Symantec and McAfee that Microsoft is using its monopoly to lock them out of access to the Vista operating system kernel.

According to a Reuters report, Kaspersky co-founder and chief executive Natalya Kaspersky said that from what the company had seen of Vista, Microsoft was not blocking access to the core.

Both Symantec and McAfee, the two largest security software vendors in the world, claim that the Patchguard feature of Vista, which locks up the kernel to prevent modification of the core code, would not make exceptions form security companies so that they could protect the operating system from the inside out.

Both McAfee and Symantec say that Patchguard has already been hacked at least once.

The two security vendors have become increasingly vocal against Microsoft and Vista since the Redmond software company entered their security space with its Windows Live OneCare security suite, significantly undercutting their prices in the process.

Microsoft has answered the two major security vendors' accusations, saying that it will continue to work hand-in-hand with computer security vendors on Vista.

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She was managing an antivirus project... but did not build it herself...
Is the antivirus named after her ?

so she's probably his wife or something (they hold the 2 highest spots in the business)...

Did some googling....

Yevgeny Kaspersky is her ex-husband
and yes together they own aboout 80 percent of the company.

it figures they would own so much of the company to start with. all of points down to one thing MONEY MONEY and did i mention MORE MONEY. they just mad that they didn't listen to Microsoft in the first place. i think it's funny though System mantic or what ever is one of many good anti virus out there. they just need to get off of there F*$king butts and work harder i think any ways.