Hi Mark,

>> http://thenextweb.com/insider/2015/08/14/kaspersky-antivirus-accused-of-cr
> e
>> ating-malware-for-over-10-years/

> this one works when pieced back together...

>> Or tinyurl:

>> 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]

Oh sorry... I must have missed a char or something when I grabbed that link.

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

>> I feel kind of vindicated.  I knew some of the false positives I was
>> 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 possibl
>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...

Oh yes, that is certainly true.

Take care,
Janis

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