New security software industry scam

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Notifier Deamon [ Mi, 18 Juli 2007 00:05 ] [ ID #1771509 ]

Re: New security software industry scam

On 2007-07-17, Straight Talk <b__nice [at] hotmail.com> wrote:
> What a scam! Symantec announces a new breed of "security products" - namely the
> "Anti-BotWare".

Now watch all other vendors follow suit.

> IOW, once again the security software industry manages to
> sub-categorize malware making it possible to introduce new
> anti-whatever products.
>
> There is *absolutely no reason* why bots shouldn't be detected by
> normal anti-malware. Well, except for one: MONEY.

I strongly agree. I find it hard to believe that they have been allow to
sell multiple products which do the same thing. All these scanners
should be amalgamated into one product.

--
Russell Wood <http://www.dynode.net/~rjw/>
Russell Wood [ Mi, 18 Juli 2007 08:01 ] [ ID #1772621 ]
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