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Online Services Let Virus Writers Check Their Work
An anonymous reader writes "Former Washington Post Security Fix blogger Brian Krebs has launched a new blog at krebsonsecurity.com, and his first story highlights a pair of underground antivirus scanning services that cater to virus writers. Scanning services like virustotal.com scan submitted files against dozens of antivirus products, and share the results with each of the vendors so that all benefit from learning about threats they don't yet detect. But there are number of budding online services that allow customers to pay per scan, and promise that the results will never get reported back to the antivirus companies. One service even tests how well web site 'exploit packs' are detected, while others promise additional layers of protection. 'The service claims that it will soon be rolling out advanced features, such as testing malware against anti-spyware and firewall programs, as well as a test to see whether the malware functions in a virtual machine.'"
...these people should not be hunted down and set to Gitmo for some water boarding then a firing squad?
When Fascism comes to America, it will call itself Anti-Fascism, and tell you to give up your guns.
Good Lord. We need to cut to the chase and just ban Windows from the Internet as unsafe at any speed.
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I remove malware for a living. Because I work in strangers' houses in unfamiliar neighborhoods, I also carry a large powerful handgun.
If I met someone who credibly claimed to be an author or distributor of malware, I fear I might "lose" several 80-cent bullets...