Trend Micro Data Revealed

Michael Santo of RealTechNews writes:

This doesn’t really require much comment because it is so hilarious. On the other hand, if you read the story, it was his home computer, so IT didn’t install the AV for him. But it’s not that he was cheap. He didn’t even have to buy the software as, according to Kazuhisa Tagaya, a spokesman for Trend Micro, “Trend Micro gives its anti-virus software to all employees for installation on their home computers.”

About a year ago an employee, who is no longer with Trend Micro, copied data including reports to his boss and proposals regarding the company’s products to his home computer, said Kazuhisa Tagaya, a spokesman for the Tokyo company. However the computer was infected through the Winny file sharing application with a virus that caused the files to be released over the file-sharing network.

“We didn’t say anything at the time because one file has a customer’s company name,” said Tagaya. “If we did say this then people would have searched for the file and it would have caused trouble for the customer. Now, such accidents happen everyday and the version of the file being distributed on Winny has been rewritten incorrectly by someone so is wrong.” Source: PC World

We Say: So he wasn’t cheap… just lazy? He got Trend Micro for free, but even without that, I can’t believe, when there are free AVs like Avast, AntiVir or AVG Free, that there are still people that don’t have some sort of AV installed on their PCs.

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