A-V Vedors getting into Spyware fray

[siljaline]

http://www.sarc.com/avcenter/expanded_threats/adware/
http://www.sarc.com/avcenter/expanded_threats/dialers/



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[null@zilch.com]

On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 03:52:56 -0400, siljaline <siljaline@invalid.com>
wrote:

>http://www.sarc.com/avcenter/expanded_threats/adware/
>http://www.sarc.com/avcenter/expanded_threats/dialers/

KAV and McAfee have been doing this for quite awhile now. Besides
Trojans and backdoors, some av vendors are obviously spreading out
into all kinds of controversial-ware. The designation anti _virus_ is
way out of date. These vendors produce anti-malware products.


Art
http://www.epix.net/~artnpeg

[siljaline]

On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 13:55:26 GMT, null@zilch.com wrote:

>On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 03:52:56 -0400, siljaline <siljaline@invalid.com>
>wrote:
>
>>http://www.sarc.com/avcenter/expanded_threats/adware/
>>http://www.sarc.com/avcenter/expanded_threats/dialers/
>
>KAV and McAfee have been doing this for quite awhile now. Besides
>Trojans and backdoors, some av vendors are obviously spreading out
>into all kinds of controversial-ware. The designation anti _virus_ is
>way out of date. These vendors produce anti-malware products.

Good comments, thanks. Anti-malware, you may have coined a phrase there.


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siljaline

"Arguing with anonymous strangers on the Internet is a sucker's game
because they almost always turn out to be -- or to be indistinguishable from
-- self-righteous sixteen-year-olds possessing infinite amounts of free time."
- Neil Stephenson, _Cryptonomicon_

[Jim Byrd]

If Anti-Malware's (AM) here, can Post-Malware (PM) be long behind?
(Probably not more than 12 hours)

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In news:juq3mvg2kj8ck8mberfsn7mb9q861us7nk@4ax.com,
siljaline <siljaline@invalid.com> typed:
> On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 13:55:26 GMT, null@zilch.com wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 03:52:56 -0400, siljaline <siljaline@invalid.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> http://www.sarc.com/avcenter/expanded_threats/adware/
>>> http://www.sarc.com/avcenter/expanded_threats/dialers/
>>
>> KAV and McAfee have been doing this for quite awhile now. Besides
>> Trojans and backdoors, some av vendors are obviously spreading out
>> into all kinds of controversial-ware. The designation anti _virus_ is
>> way out of date. These vendors produce anti-malware products.
>
> Good comments, thanks. Anti-malware, you may have coined a phrase
> there.

[Jay T. Blocksom]

On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 03:52:56 -0400, in <alt.privacy.spyware>, siljaline
<siljaline@invalid.com> wrote:
>
> http://www.sarc.com/avcenter/expanded_threats/adware/
> http://www.sarc.com/avcenter/expanded_threats/dialers/

I'll see you, and raise you:

<http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=e33tkvkp5rgovhebg8ajt6mc7u8nnmimbj%40n ews.rcn.com>

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[Jay T. Blocksom]

On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 13:55:26 GMT, in <alt.privacy.spyware>, null@zilch.com
wrote:
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[snip]

> The designation anti _virus_ is
> way out of date. These vendors produce anti-malware products.
>

Sorry, can't buy that. In at least some cases, those same vendors are
producing malware themselves:

<http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=e33tkvkp5rgovhebg8ajt6mc7u8nnmimbj%40n ews.rcn.com>

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