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Can the Malware Industry be Trusted?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the surely-you-jest dept.

Joe Barr writes "Is the entire anti-virus / malware industry as rotten as it appears? I started digging into it as a result of the recent lame, unsubstantiated assertions of viral threats to Linux by Kaspersky Lab, but the practice doesn't seem to start or end with them. Who knows, maybe it's pandemic in that entire segment of the IT industry."

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  1. Gadzooks! by goldaryn · · Score: 5, Funny

    Every year, US-Cert produces huge fireworks in the security trade press with their annual summary of misinformation about security flaws. [...] The summary gives a total for flaws found in Windows and another total for flaws found in Unix and Linux. Last year, those totals were 812 for Windows and 2,312 for Unix/Linux.

    Oh ****! Quick, someone tell me how to upgrade to this "Windows" thing!