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In article <eu0e4f$n15$3@aioe.org>
kurt wismer <kurtw@sympatico.ca> wrote:
>
> Aunti Virus wrote:
> > In article <lshMh.6760$YD.955@trnddc06>
> > "David H. Lipman" <DLipman~nospam~@Verizon.Net> wrote:
> >> From: "Aunti Virus" <"auntivyrus ATnym.panta-rhei.eu.org"@remailer-debian.panta-rhei.eu.org>
>
> >> | Of course it's not possible. Anti-Virus companies are the primary source
> >> | of viruses. They create them and then release them into the wild through a
> >> | wide variety of means and then charge customers all the market will bear to
> >> | remove the threat.
> >> |
> >> | The ONLY honest AV companies are the one's whose product is 100% free for
> >> | the user. If you pay for an AV product, you are paying blackmail.
> >> |
> >>
> >> If you believe that ****, I have a bridge to sell you!
> >
> > Why is it so hard to believe?
>
> it presupposes that they would *need* to do that... that there aren't
> enough people making malware for their own reasons that the av companies
> have to get in on it to justify their existence...
>
> anyone with half a clue in this field knows that there are in fact many
> people willing to make malware without any connection to the anti-virus
> industry whatsoever... there's no shortage of malware writers out there
> so there's no need for the anti-virus industry to pick up the slack...

I don't believe it is a matter of the industry needing to do things like
this so much as it is one of them doing it out of greed.

I'm not saying all of them are doing it, nor is it evil to be in business
and make a profit. Simply that I believe the largest several are doing a
microsoft and trying to help themselves grow by creating a need that only
they can fill

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