Facebook announces Anti-Virus Marketplace

Yesterday (April 25th) Facebook announced the launch of Anti-Virus Marketplace. This Facebook page will allow users to download a six-month full version anti-virus software license from McAfee, Norton, Sophos for Macs and Trend Micro for PCs and Macs. Microsoft is free anyway, which strikes me as rather odd, that this was included. Did Microsoft offer Facebook access to it’s vast Windows-based security knowledge base? I’m more convinced than ever that this is an ad campaign to drum up business in an AV consumer market that is in a state of flux right now. Also, why do I want to ‘like’ a chosen product? Read more....