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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 ... Duct tape, the handyman's secret weapon! - Red Green --- * Origin: (1:3634/12.73) |
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