The search advertising company has been prepping anti-virus scanning for its web-based email client, a development sure to spur antacid sales at places like Symantec and McAfee.
Why should an AVG or a similar product. For Google to make a free, easy-to-implement AV client that its legions of users can grab is another matter, one that kicks publicly traded AV makers right in the earnings announcements.
As Garrett Rogers of ZDNet Google already has excellent spam filtering and phishing detection, this is another way Google will gain "trust" points with their users. Right now GMail only blocks .exe files which have a high probability of being viruses. By disallowing .exe files, most viruses don't get through, however a full fledged anti-virus feature should help eliminate viruses completely.
Those "trust points" Rogers mentioned demonstrate why commercial AV makers for the personal market should be afraid, very afraid.
David Utter is a staff writer for Murdok covering technology and business. Email him
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