kurt wismer wrote:
> Dustin Cook wrote:
> > kurt wismer <kurtw@sympatico.ca> wrote in news:epr8pe$847$1@aioe.org:
> >
> >> David H. Lipman wrote:
> >> [snip]

<snip>


> [snip]
> > Putting a persons job or his/her freedom at stake just to satisfy a
> > usenet poster is just to risky and immature.
>
> if you think this is just to satisfy my whims then you are gravely
> mistaken...

tough!

>
> > Nothing is really gained by
> > this.
>
> not true... if the claim is proven true then the ensuing lack of
> confidence in the av industry is justified... if not then there is no
> justification for it but it will happen all the same with such a rumor
> picking up steam from people considered to be authorities on the subject...

Lack of confidence!

Rob Rosenberger has been informing people about the AV addiction scam
for years, yet people haven't lost their confidence in the av ripoff
industry yet. Nothing is going to convince the ignorant punters how
much they are being duped by this money making cartel. For ****s sake
people are still being taken in with the "you are protected from
100,000+ virus" ****! because people can't make reasonable risk
assessment of the real problems when they have fat av marketing clowns
like Graham Cluely hyping things to the max.

99% of that virus database can be dismissed right away... Let them
dare tell the truth, their share holders won't let them. ;]]




>
> > David's comments do not extend the silly notion that antivirus
> > companies make the viruses. Plain old fashioned, stupidity lets that
> > rumour live.

*Hahaha* Do you know how the AV industry get a lot of their samples?
>From the virus traders, who get them from the creators... indirect
links anyone *LOL*

>
> no, no, not that they make viruses, but that they reward virus
> writers... just as john mcafee paying for viruses rewarded virus
> writers, other av vendors hiring them also rewards them...
>
> [snip]
> > Vxers can't really be described simply Kurt, it's not black and white.
>
> no part of my argument has been based on vx'ers being easy to describe,
> or being described at all for that matter...
>
> you don't hire ex-arsonists to be firemen, you don't hire
> ex-bank-robbers to be bank managers, and you don't hire ex-virus-writers
> to work on anti-virus products... it's not about whether they're really
> reformed or not, it's about perception and trust...

Kurt this example makes you look like a stupid ****. You've already
libeled Benny by calling him a reformed bad-guy. You could hardly make
the analogy that a talented programmer with an interest in security
and proof of concept like Benny is the likes of some mental ex-
arsonist.

*you silly ********


4Q