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RSS gecadCombating the Increasing Cost of Email
White Paper Businesses usually adopt a commonsense approach when it comes to spending the IT budget with cost being a major influencer in purchasing decisions. However, when it comes to choosing a mail server, many businesses seem to pay less attention to the... [15 May 2008]
How to Build an Effective Mail Server Defense: A Multi-Stage Approach to Securing Your Email Communication
White Paper When speaking of mail server-related security, one tends to limit the issue to message applied security measures, and even more to Antivirus and Antispam protection. This is however only one stage in the more complex process of securing the server. [07 Sep 2006]
Microsoft set to unleash OneCare in one day
News Microsoft announced its intention to offer antivirus products in June 2003 when it bought Romanian antivirus software developer GeCad Software. Microsoft plans to start selling Windows OneCare Live on Thursday, three years after it announced its... [31 May 2006]
Microsoft security service to ship in June
News Microsoft announced its intent to offer antivirus products in June 2003 when it bought Romanian antivirus software developer GeCad Software. Microsoft plans to ship a new security product in June, charging $49.95 (£28.66) a year to shield up to... [08 Feb 2006]
Microsoft antivirus product due before summer
News Two years ago, Microsoft announced its intent to offer antivirus products when it bought Romanian antivirus software developer GeCad Software. Microsoft plans to release its subscription security program before the summer and to challenge its main... [07 Feb 2006]
Opinion: So why can't Microsoft build in security?
Comment When, two years ago, Microsoft purchased Romanian antivirus vendor GeCAD as part of its Trustworthy Computing initiative, I warned the result might lead to a queue of antitrust lawyers gathering around the Capitol building in Washington, as the... [12 Oct 2005]
Microsoft security tools: Beta late than never
News Microsoft announced its intent to offer antivirus products two years ago, when it bought Romanian antivirus software developer GeCad Software. Selected software testers are getting a look at OneCare Live, Microsoft's subscription antivirus and anti... [21 Jul 2005]
Microsoft buys up antivirus firm
News Microsoft already owns some antivirus technology, which it bought from Romania's GeCad in 2003, but it has not yet released its own antivirus product. Microsoft plans to acquire Sybari Software, marking its latest effort to bolster its presence in... [09 Feb 2005]
Microsoft's latest patch needs patching
News Antivirus specialist GeCad Net is warning that it has found a problem with Microsoft's most recent software patch for Windows. GeCad, which sold its antivirus software business to Microsoft in 2003, said that the patch has not addressed at least... [25 Jan 2005]
10 points on Microsoft's 2005 'to do' list
News The analyst house criticises the Great Plains, Navision and GeCAD buys as not delivering enough fast enough. Specialist analysis house Directions on Microsoft has released a list of what it considers the top 10 challenges for the software giant in... [22 Dec 2004]
Leader: Consolidate, consolidate, consolidate
Leader Add to that Symantec buying Brightmail, TurnTide and @stake, McAfee splashing out on Foundstone, TruSecure and BeTrusted merging, Microsoft buying GeCad and numerous other movements in the market, and it creates an image of an industry rapidly... [06 Oct 2004]
Microsoft to offer anti-spyware, says Gates
News The company purchased Romanian antivirus firm GeCad in 2003. Microsoft plans to offer its own anti-spyware software, chairman Bill Gates said. Gates said Microsoft will offer software to detect malicious applications and that the company will keep... [04 Oct 2004]
Microsoft - the antivirus vendor?
News A standalone antivirus product will be built from tools the company inherited through its 2003 acquisitions of GeCad and Pelican Software, according to a report published in silicon.com sister publication ZDNet France, citing the technical head of... [29 Jul 2004]
Microsoft dismisses antivirus acquisition rumours
News Speaking to silicon.com at the Tech Ed developer conference in Amsterdam this week, Steven Adler, European senior security specialist at Microsoft, said the company's antivirus plans are still at an early stage, including the integration of... [01 Jul 2004]
Leader: No acquisition-smoke without fire?
Leader Only 12 months ago, Microsoft bought Romanian AV firm GeCAD and at the time nobody in the industry thought it would end there. Rumours are rife this week that Microsoft is about to make perhaps its most significant acquisition yet - antivirus giant... [24 Jun 2004]
