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RE: Consumer Reports Slammed for Creating 'Test' Viruses
From: Larry Seltzer <Larry () larryseltzer com>
Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2006 19:52:43 -0400
This is the first time I've heard a rumour about shady consultants
who did "black ops" for the vendors. The rumours I've always heard are much simpler "I bet the AV companies write a lot of these viruses, or pay to have them written." I hope nobody got the idea I ever believed these rumors. At the time I was at NSTL running contract testing projects, although I don't think I was very involved in the anti-virus projects. IIRC, the rumors came through sales people. Larry Seltzer eWEEK.com Security Center Editor http://security.eweek.com/ http://blog.eweek.com/blogs/larry%5Fseltzer/ Contributing Editor, PC Magazine larryseltzer () ziffdavis com _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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- RE: Consumer Reports Slammed for Creating 'Test' Viruses David Harley (Aug 24)
- RE: Consumer Reports Slammed for Creating 'Test' Viruses Drsolly (Aug 24)
- Re: Consumer Reports Slammed for Creating 'Test' Viruses Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah (Aug 21)
- RE: Consumer Reports Slammed for Creating 'Test' Viruses Larry Seltzer (Aug 20)
- RE: Consumer Reports Slammed for Creating 'Test' Viruses David Harley (Aug 20)
- RE: Consumer Reports Slammed for Creating 'Test' Viruses Larry Seltzer (Aug 20)
- RE: Consumer Reports Slammed for Creating 'Test' Viruses David Harley (Aug 20)
- RE: Consumer Reports Slammed for Creating 'Test' Viruses Drsolly (Aug 20)
- RE: Consumer Reports Slammed for Creating 'Test' Viruses Drsolly (Aug 19)
- RE: Consumer Reports Slammed for Creating 'Test' Viruses Larry Seltzer (Aug 19)
- RE: Consumer Reports Slammed for Creating 'Test' Viruses Drsolly (Aug 19)