Konst will present his ideas on Microsoft activity - why they don't add an anti-virus program to their software.

If there were Greenpeace for the computer security, which would take care of the rare species in the information technology world, they probably wouldn't let completely extinguish one very interesting creature. Creature, celebrating this winter its 20 years jubilee.

Figure 1. Why is there no anti-virus?

I am speaking of the first PC virus, called Brian. Though it's not the first computer virus ever (which appeared earlier, in the year 1982 for the Apple II platform), the Brian virus is important for the computers world, just like Brian Adams is important to his recording label. As the PC was invented, computers started to play a growing role in the regular people lives, not only in those of smelly scientists with thick glasses. This way, PC viruses became more important phenomena.

Another piece of software for the Intel platform, born in 1985, just a year before Brian, successfully survived till our days. Initially a graphics environment to run solitaire, in the beginning it didn't write any of its code into the boot sector – it ran under the MS-DOS operating system instead. Now, after 21 years of ongoing development and subsequent versions, Windows is an operating system itself. This year a new version called Vista is to be released. Microsoft is not going to ship any anti-virus software in the same box, Vista's main brand new feature being security.

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