Is Your Antivirus Made By the Chinese Government?

Posted by samzenpus on Monday April 18, 2011 @12:08AM from the great-security-wall dept.

guanxi writes "Huawei, a large Chinese telecom and IT company with close ties to the Chinese military has faced obstacles doing business in other countries, because governments are concerned about giving them access to critical infrastructure. Huawei Symantec is a joint venture with one of the world's largest IT security companies which sells security products in the US. Would the Chinese or other governments take the opportunity to create back doors into western IT networks? Wouldn't they be crazy not to?"

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Re:ClamAV, Open Source Antivirus by rbrausse · 2011-04-18 00:39 · Score: 4, Informative

But ClamAV is one of the worst engines out there. If one need's an antivirus tool (it would be a fair point to call all of them snake oil) use a package with a higher detection rate.