Crispy Critter wrote:
> On 31 Oct 2006 13:47:13 -0800, Nick Skrepetos wrote:
>
>
> > It's just the reality of the spyware game/landscape - no product, ever,
> > will be able to get everything on a given day - so the idea is to run
> > multiple layers - SUPERAntiSpyware is designed to co-exist with
> > existing security applications for that reason.
>
> That's kind of an expensive avenue to take though. Wonder how much spyware
> is put on the net by entities that have a vested intertest in selling anti
> spyware progs.Same with virii. Not accusing you of doing this but it makes
> one wonder where all the spyware is actually coming from.

It's not the anti-malware/anti-spyware vendors fault they can't get
ahold of every sample on every single day - you would not believe the
number of samples we, and other vendors, receive on a daily basis -
thousands and thousands of samples.

You wonder where the spyware is coming from - bottom line - companies
such as Dollar Revenue pay big bucks per install:

USA $ 0.30
Canada $ 0.20
United Kingdom $ 0.10

The spyware market is probably more lucrative for many companies than
the anti-spyware market - if we were writing the spyware, don't you
think we could remove all of it?

If users were not surfing Porn, Stealing Software (Warez/Cracks),
Stealing Music/Videos (p2p) - the whole problem would not be so great.

If people were willing to pay for software and services on the web,
there would be no market for the spyware vendors - they spyware targets
"free" because users just can't keep away.....users are the ones in
control of changing the spyware game - the anti-malware vendors are
here to clean up the mess...

Nick Skrepetos
SUPERAntiSpyware.com
http://www.superantispyware.com