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Re[2]: AV companies better hire good lawyers soon.
From: 3APA3A <3APA3A () SECURITY NNOV RU>
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 01:24:27 +0400
Dear Micheal Espinola Jr, Symantec incorrectly identifies 3proxy as a trojan. Now, please explain me, HOW should I submit 3proxy to Symantec if I'm not Symantec user? All attempts to contact Symantec failed. With Kaspersky AV it took few weeks of time, private contacts with KAV developers and mass media were involved to correct this situation. Any Antivirus is dangerous. Antiviral company has greater control level on your computer than developer of your OS. Microsoft tests it's patches for months, in most cases you do additional testing before implementing. Antiviral developers test their signatures in few minutes. You can't check any update, because it's recommended to update bases every 3-4 hours. Antiviral bases grow. If situation doesn't change, finally we will have a risk of installing antiviral software to be comparable with a risk of not having one (I know real incidents of damage caused by antiviral software of different vendors, not only Symantec, in corporate networks). One mistake of tired developer on the late night can ruin your network or result of your development. I extremely hope this precedent to change antiviral vendor's approach to testing and relations with software developers. --Monday, September 13, 2004, 9:28:49 PM, you wrote to full-disclosure () lists netsys com: MEJ> I disagree. Programmer's should know to submit their code to the MEJ> various AV companies in order to avoid false-positives. MEJ> On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 12:12:35 +0200 (CEST), Feher Tamas MEJ> <etomcat () freemail hu> wrote:
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- Re: AV companies better hire good lawyers soon. Mister Coffee (Sep 14)
- Re: AV companies better hire good lawyers soon. Manuel C. -aka- ekerazha (Sep 14)
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- Re: AV companies better hire good lawyers soon. Mister Coffee (Sep 14)
- Re: AV companies better hire good lawyers soon. gadgeteer (Sep 14)
- Re: AV companies better hire good lawyers soon. Micheal Espinola Jr (Sep 14)
- Re: AV companies better hire good lawyers soon. Frank Knobbe (Sep 14)
- Re: AV companies better hire good lawyers soon. Valdis . Kletnieks (Sep 14)
- Re: AV companies better hire good lawyers soon. Frank Knobbe (Sep 14)
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- Re: AV companies better hire good lawyers soon. Frank Knobbe (Sep 14)
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- Re: AV companies better hire good lawyers soon. gadgeteer (Sep 14)
- Re: Re: AV companies better hire good lawyers soon. James Tucker (Sep 14)
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