RE: "Perspective: Wresting free from a software straitjacket"

[Drsolly <drsollyp () drsolly com>]

On Sat, 2 Dec 2006, Nick FitzGerald wrote:

> Young, Keith wrote:
>
> > > From Paul Vixie:
> > > http://news.com.com/2010-1002_3-6139456.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-5
> >
> > Exactly. When did we, the security community, stop believing in the
> > K.I.S.S. principle and start believing in the "buy the latest
> > IDS/IPS/firewall/enpoint-security/data-leak-protection/patching/vulnerab
> > ility-scanner/harddrive-encryption/anti-malware/log-correlation/etc/etc/
> > etc/etc" principle that we are poorly implementing today? 
>
> About 1987-89.
>
> Drsolly should be able to give you a more accurate answer -- when did 
> you sell your first AV product Alan?

Um, was it the start of 1989? And that's about when I launched Virus Fax 
International.

>  Do you know when John Make-A-Fee 
> sold the first copy of Scan (then called ViruScan IIRC)?

I seem to remember that Sophos were selling their file checksummer for
£199 per copy at about the same time. And they launched their commercial
newsletter, Virus Bulletin at about that time too.
 

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