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RE: "Perspective: Wresting free from a software straitjacket"
From: "Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah" <rmslade () shaw ca>
Date: Sat, 02 Dec 2006 17:54:16 -0800
Young, Keith wrote: Do you know when John Make-A-Fee sold the first copy of Scan (then called ViruScan IIRC)?
Right. You've forced me back into the archives for research. First mention I have of him is a query circa July of 1988, at which point he was associated with Interpath, and the Computer Virus Association (later to become the Computer Virus Industry Association). By November of 1988 Johnnie was in trouble for a) using a "simulator" to evaluate AV software (of competitors), b) grabbing a perfect score on said simulator for his own product (unnamed in that report), and c) distributing viruses via his BBS. (I have a later message that refers to a November 1987 timeframe for McAfee's "C-4.") Messages in April 1989 were still referring to C-4. First mention I have for Viruscan is July of 1989. (In June there was mention of the MDISK BSI cleaner.) In August of 1989 somebody did a quick review of Viruscan noting that is detected about 25 programs. ====================== (quote inserted randomly by Pegasus Mailer) rslade () vcn bc ca slade () victoria tc ca rslade () computercrime org If you keep your mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish into it. - William A. Orton Dictionary of Information Security www.syngress.com/catalog/?pid=4150 http://victoria.tc.ca/techrev/rms.htm _______________________________________________ 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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- "Perspective: Wresting free from a software straitjacket" Paul Vixie (Dec 01)
- Re: "Perspective: Wresting free from a software straitjacket" Florian Weimer (Dec 02)
- Re: "Perspective: Wresting free from a software straitjacket" Paul Vixie (Dec 02)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- RE: "Perspective: Wresting free from a software straitjacket" Young, Keith (Dec 01)
- RE: "Perspective: Wresting free from a software straitjacket" Nick FitzGerald (Dec 01)
- RE: "Perspective: Wresting free from a software straitjacket" Drsolly (Dec 02)
- RE: "Perspective: Wresting free from a software straitjacket" Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah (Dec 02)
- RE: "Perspective: Wresting free from a software straitjacket" Nick FitzGerald (Dec 01)
- RE: "Perspective: Wresting free from a software straitjacket" Drsolly (Dec 02)
- Re: "Perspective: Wresting free from a software straitjacket" Florian Weimer (Dec 02)
- RE: "Perspective: Wresting free from a software straitjacket" Fergie (Dec 01)
- RE: "Perspective: Wresting free from a software straitjacket" Nick FitzGerald (Dec 04)
- Re: "Perspective: Wresting free from a software straitjacket" Brian Loe (Dec 04)
- RE: "Perspective: Wresting free from a software straitjacket" David Harley (Dec 05)
- Re: "Perspective: Wresting free from a software straitjacket" Nick FitzGerald (Dec 05)
- Re: "Perspective: Wresting free from a software straitjacket" Brian Loe (Dec 05)
- RE: "Perspective: Wresting free from a software straitjacket" Nick FitzGerald (Dec 04)