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 Message 274 
 mark lewis to Janis Kracht 
 Kapersky ain't all it's cracked up to be 
 15 Aug 15 09:13:56 
 
14 Aug 15 23:40, you wrote to All:

 JK> http://thenextweb.com/insider/2015/08/14/kaspersky-antiviru
-accused-of-cre
 JK> ating-malware-for-over-10-years/

this one works when pieced back together...

 JK> Or tinyurl:

 JK> http://tinyurl.com/nwokf4r

[quote]
Error 404 - Not Found

The document you are looking for may have been removed or re-named. Please
contact the web site owner for further assistance.
[/quote]

the tinyurl goes to "nextweb" instead of "thenextweb"...

 JK> I feel kind of vindicated.  I knew some of the false positives I was
 JK> seeing were perhaps staged ..

TBH i'm not sure... a lot of these guys do just like is done in the security
industry... they have their closed groups that everyone is a member of where
they share certain data so that all may benefit... there have been known AVs
that were just taking other AV's engines and rules, repackaging them and
calling them something else... several of those were caught outright... IIRC
kaspersky's engine and rules was one of those being used like this...

reverse industrial espionage? sure, i can see it... it is also known as
disinformation and is widely used... those companies that fell for the
possible ruses failed to throughly test their offerings... failure to
throughly test is an all too common failing in today's IT world... one only
need look at m$ to see that with all their security holes, buffer overruns,
heap overflows, stack overruns, etc...

)\/(ark

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