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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. Re:It Could Be Rising Tech Really Is Malicious by El_Muerte_TDS · · Score: 5, Insightful

    And on the other side of the pond you've got companies that are for sale. For all you know Symantec allows certain backdoor software distributed by the MPAA/RIAA.

    How much can you trust companies like that?

  2. Happened to me too by Spacejock · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I have a website with a bunch of my own freeware apps available. On two separate occasions I've had a number of emails from users of major AV software asking me what the hell I was playing at trying to install trojans on their PCs. In both cases it was false positives, one from NAV and the other from the company mentioned in this article (which is what prompted me to post). Each time they eventually got around to correcting their definitions, but sure as anything it'll happen again. And in the meantime, how many dozens or hundreds of people assumed I was one of them there nasty spammer trojan virus people trying to infect their PC?

    Why should the onus be on ME to check THEY haven't stuffed up? You can't install and run all the different brands of AV software on one PC, unless you install a bunch of virtual machines with one AV prog on each, and then you'd have to update the definitions daily.

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    Hal Spacejock: Science Fiction with Nuts
  3. Re:Why only Kaspersky? by thegnu · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I've seen Spybot take years to fix false positives that have been brought to their attention.
    By "Spybot," do you mean "Patrick Kolla?" I know now he's got help, but how many years ago did these "years" occur?

    Plus, it's still part of THE best passive/manual protection you can get:

    1. Spybot w. Hosts list & immunize
    2. Spywareblaster
    3. IESPYADS
    4. Firefox
    5. WRT54G
    6. Merijn's BugOff

    I know a router probably isn't really passive, but to the PC it is. Oh, and besides the router, this is all free. My 2 cents.

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    Please stop stalking me, bro.