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Antivirus Vendors Headed for Court

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the yeah-good-luck-with-that dept.

SkiifGeek writes "A showdown between Rising Tech, a Chinese Antivirus vendor, and Kaspersky Lab in a Chinese court could have implications for software vendors that misidentify system files and files from their competitors as being malicious."

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  1. OT: Virus Sources by zippthorne · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Other than the obvious, AV vendors actually creating the beasties they protect against..

    Has anyone calculated the odds that a virus could be created by transmission error (assuming negligence in checksumming)?

    I'm sure it's very low, but are we talking, "Not before the Heat death of the universe" low or "struck by lightning while being mauled by a bear" low?

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