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  • Kapersky ain't all it's cracked up to be?

    From Janis Kracht@1:261/38 to All on Fri Aug 14 23:40:16 2015
    http://thenextweb.com/insider/2015/08/14/kaspersky-antivirus-accused-of-creatin g-malware-for-over-10-years/

    Or tinyurl:

    http://tinyurl.com/nwokf4r

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

    YMMV

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  • From mark lewis@1:3634/12.73 to Janis Kracht on Sat Aug 15 09:13:56 2015

    14 Aug 15 23:40, you wrote to All:

    http://thenextweb.com/insider/2015/08/14/kaspersky-antivirus-accused-of-cre
    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]

    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 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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  • From Janis Kracht@1:261/38 to mark lewis on Sat Aug 15 17:01:40 2015
    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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  • From Allen Prunty@1:2320/100 to Janis Kracht on Sat Jul 23 16:49:48 2016
    Re: Kapersky ain't all it's cracked up to be?
    By: Janis Kracht to All on Fri Aug 14 2015 11:50 pm

    http://tinyurl.com/nwokf4r

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

    Janis,

    Sorry for responding to an older message but this kind of validates how I have always felt. I believed that the antivirus authors were often the ones who invested a lot of the viri and malware. After all if there weren't any malware out there then there would be no need for their product.

    Allen
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