Via Slashdot: Antivirus Vendors Head to Court

["Richard M. Smith" <rms () computerbytesman com>]

http://www.beskerming.com/commentary/2007/07/08/209/Antivirus_Vendors_Head_t
o_Court

Antivirus Vendors Head to Court
A growing dispute between Kaspersky Lab and Rising Tech in China is now
headed to court after Kaspersky sued Rising Tech for anticompetitive
business practices.

The growing dispute, tracked by the Chinese Internet Security Response Team,
started when an update issued by Kaspersky for their antivirus products
misidentified some of the files associated with the Rising Tech antivirus
products as being malicious. This misidentification led to the Rising Tech
products being unable to be updated. It is unlikely that the problem was
very widespread, as it would have required affected users to be running both
Kaspersky and Rising Tech software and updating them whenever a new
definitions file was released. Even so, it was still a problem that needed
rapid rectification.

Kaspersky, based in Russia, and Rising Tech, a Chinese Antivirus vendor,
kept up the slanging match, with Rising Tech accusing Kaspersky of
misidentifying files at least 22 times within a six month period, accusing
Kaspersky of "show[ing] despise for Chinese users". Rising Tech announced on
the 30th of May that they were planning to sue the Beijing office of
Kaspersky for unfair competitive practices (though it isn't known whether
this suit was brought to court).

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