Re: MS Anti Virus?

[Ben Timby <asp () webexc com>]

I think everyone missed Nick's point. Since reversers work for the 
competition, don't you think they would find and use the M$ undocumented 
API? M$ would not be dumb enough to try it, since their competition in 
this market is comprised of reverse engineers, who would simply 
"counter-innovate" by using the M$ API :-).

Nick FitzGerald wrote:

> Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu wrote:
>
>
> > Naah.. They'd never use an undocumented API to benefit their product at the
> > expense of the competition, would they? ;)
>
>
> In this case, no.
>
> Given that a lot of AV technical work is reverse engineering and that 
> most of the best AV reversers are not among those MS "acquired" from 
> RAV or who have joined MS from other AV developers subsequently (not 
> that they haven't got some very good reversers, just there are still an 
> awful ot of them elsewhere), I doubt even MS is stupid enough to 
> consider trying something like this.

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