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Re: UK: Commercial Keylogger Challenges Anti-Spyware Vendor Sunbelt
From: Nick FitzGerald <nick () virus-l demon co uk>
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 16:40:48 +1300
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 _______________________________________________ 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.
Current thread:
- UK: Commercial Keylogger Challenges Anti-Spyware Vendor Sunbelt Fergie (Nov 10)
- Re: UK: Commercial Keylogger Challenges Anti-Spyware Vendor Sunbelt Nick FitzGerald (Nov 10)
- Re: UK: Commercial Keylogger Challenges Anti-Spyware Vendor Sunbelt Kevin McAleavey (Nov 11)
- Re: UK: Commercial Keylogger Challenges Anti-Spyware Vendor Sunbelt Nick FitzGerald (Nov 10)