Re: Re: summary of the "sharing samples" thread from my view-point

[Drsolly <drsollyp () drsolly com>]

On Sun, 1 Jan 2006, Nick FitzGerald wrote:

> Gadi Evron wrote:
>
> <<big snip>>
> > My arguments repeat themselves: malware is everywhere - fact.  ...
>
> Yes...
>
> > ...  Good Guys
> > have a hard time - fact. Etc.
> <<big snip>>
>
> In this debate we keep hearing this claim, but I just don't believe it.
>
> Who the f*ck are all these thousands upon thousands of "Good Guys" who 
> need malware samples and access to expert analysis of the same _for 
> their own and the Internet's betterment_?
>
> Who the f*ck are they?
>
> Where did they suddenly come from?
>
> What do they do for a crust?
>
> Why the f*ck are they not knocking down the doors of the professional 
> analysis labs (or presumably at ClamAV should they strongly prefer OSS) 
> that certainly could use a bunch of them?
>
>
> Seriously, I want (in fact, need) to know the answer to this.

WILL DISASSEMBLE FOR FOOD

Seriously, though - they don't exist, excpet in the imagination of anyone 
who sets up a virus exchange web site, and assumes that anyone who visits 
the home page is eager to spend hundreds of hours duplicating the work of 
all the others doing the same thing, in order to protect their clients 
from a threat that they're most likely already protected from, and haven't 
yet understood that if you're serious about doing this, you need to work 
on it full time (and possibly in a team with several other people doing 
similar things on other malware).

The thing is, if you tell a human being "You can't have THAT" then
suddenly THAT is the only thing that she really really wants.

And setting up a Virus Exchange web site is one way to get THAT.

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