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Re: BitDefender, you've created a monster! (story ...)


From: <michael.blanchard () emc com>
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 10:35:31 -0500

There's one guy in an office with a huge window overlooking a nice lake with snow-capped mountains in the back ground, 
every now and again a deer will walk by or a rabbit munching on some grass.  This one guy has the job of coming up with 
these awesome names.  This job is very sought after and the only way to get this job is for the existing guy to die or 
quit.

 Mike B

Michael P. Blanchard
Senior Security Engineer, CISSP, GCIH, CCSA-NGX, MCSE
Office of Information Security & Risk Management
EMC ² Corporation
32 Coslin Drive
Southboro, MA 01772


-----Original Message-----
From: funsec-bounces () linuxbox org [mailto:funsec-bounces () linuxbox org] On Behalf Of Sanjay Katkar
Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2012 1:59 AM
To: funsec () linuxbox org
Subject: Re: [funsec] BitDefender, you've created a monster! (story ...)

I always wonder how these guys come out with such new interesting words to 
name it?

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Sanjay Katkar
Quick Heal Technologies, India
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At 11:58 PM 1/25/2012, Robert Slade wrote:
www.infosecurity-magazine.com/view/23465/viruses-and-worms-are-evolving-into-frankenmalware/

OK, this is obviously going to be the AV/infosec story of the week.  (At 
least this particular story notes that it isn't a big deal, although they 
don't seem to realize it's old news.)

(If any AV/anti-malware/security company wants to hire me, I'd be glad to 
look back through my archives and find threats from 25 years ago and dress 
them up in new jargon in order to seed out stupid press releases like the 
one that started this.  I've got a million of 'em ...)

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