XBlock and Facetime fight crime?

...Yes, it's crystal ball time. Away with rumblings of Direct Revenue and gigantic botnets harboured off the coast of France - there's time for that tomorrow - for now, sit tight and watch me make some humble predictions in a Scooby-Doo fashion.

Lately, rumours have been flying fast and furious over XBlock being aquired by Facetime Communications - an IM and P2P security company, of all things! You might remember XBlock from such adventures as Cap'n Wayne Lays down the Law and Alice, my Spazbox is broken. Well, buckle up Mr Anderson, because a new chapter in the Antispyware fight is about to begin. And though Wayne isn't talking about it, I expect no less from a man that can dive into the Spazbox and live to tell the tale. I know I was mute for a while, and I had some priests and a bucket of....but I digress.

One thing I DO recall, is talking to Wayne over lunch at the CNET Antispyware conference about the size of some of the monster installs that are currently going on. I toyed with the notion that Malware bundles would get bigger and bigger, making full use of increased bandwidth and cheaper DSL - look out for the world's first 1GIG install, coming soon to a messed up PC near you - and how he replied that software alone would not handle future attacks. There would have to be an end-to-end solution, involving a multi-layer approach. He also noted that vectors of attack were changing, and would continue to grow as marketers become more aggressive. We only have to look at the, er, novelty of using Java to get past almost any browser you care to mention to see this is true.

And we all know how many rich pickings are out there already in IM and P2P land.

Well, check this out for a nifty piece of join-the-dots:

Facetime just announced an anti-spyware perimeter device.

Rumours about that XBlock has some patent pending solutions on a new way to assault Spyware.

Paperghost prediction - join the dots and watch them merge into a nifty tapestry of all new, Antispyware ass-kicking action.

You know it makes sense.

Update - Check this out. I must've beat them to it by a whole ten minutes.