{"id":1366,"date":"2004-12-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-12-20T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/2004\/12\/20\/microsoft-alters-hotmail-security-trend\/"},"modified":"2021-12-30T11:39:14","modified_gmt":"2021-12-30T11:39:14","slug":"microsoft-alters-hotmail-security-trend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/2004\/12\/20\/microsoft-alters-hotmail-security-trend\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Alters Hotmail Security Trend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Security software firm Trend Micro (Quote, Chart) announced it had completed a deal with Microsoft (Quote, Chart) to provide virus scanning, protection and cleaning for its Hotmail Web-based e-mail service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Under the agreement, the Tokyo-based anti-virus and security software company will provide Hotmail&#8217;s 187 million users with protection whenever they send and receive e-mail attachments.  The software will scan in real-time for the latest viruses, Trojans and worms, according to Punit Minocha, senior director of business development at Trend Micro.<\/p>\n<p>The move by Redmond was seen in some corners as a blow to Santa Clara-based security firm McAfee (Quote, Chart), a Trend Micro competitor, who had provided the bulk of virus security to Hotmail users since 2000.<\/p>\n<p>The move has had nearly polar effects on both software security vendors&#8217; stock prices.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.internetnews.com\/security\/article.php\/3450321<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-product"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1366"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3853,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366\/revisions\/3853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}