Re: UK: Commercial Keylogger Challenges Anti-Spyware Vendor Sunbelt

[Nick FitzGerald <nick () virus-l demon co uk>]

Fergie wrote:

> RetroCoder Ltd. has threatened legal action against Sunbelt Software for
> listing the U.K. company's commercial keystroke-logging application in its
> anti-spyware database, reflecting the growing animosity between some
> software makers and security vendors.
<<snip>>

Little new there -- I forget the company's name, but whoever took over 
the commercial (shareware??) distribution of NetBus 2.0(and any later 
versions) had the same beef with the big (at least) US AV developers.  
This (amongst other similar situations) is what prompted NAI/McAfee to 
add the "possibly unwanted program" classification to their scanner and 
the detection of things because they were "misnamed and/or misplaced" 
(basically "not installed in the default directory and/or with the 
default filename for the .EXE).

That was sometime back when I was working in the UK -- 97-99-ish, or 
_just_ after I left the UK...


Regards,

Nick FitzGerald

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