padgett%tccslr.dnet@mmc.com (A. Padgett Peterson) (06/05/91)
According to this (PC) week's Spencer Katt column, certain anti-viral
software houses are boosting their counts by soliciting viruses for
pay and programmers are taking them up for "big bucks".
Gee-gosharootie, have we been missing out on an income potential:
wonder what 100 more STONED clones, half with stealth would bring in ?
Shouldn't take more than five minutes each.
Kind of reminds me of the Byte-Brothers comical PARASCAN program's
ending: "PARASCAN detects 75 viruses (this was last year) & will
detect more as soon as we write some." <from memory so may be
mis-quoted>
Oh well, at least it is better than the Windows-melting virus in
April.
Bemusidly,
Padgett
Obviously my own thoughts - no one else would want them !frisk@rhi.hi.is (Fridrik Skulason) (06/08/91)
padgett%tccslr.dnet@mmc.com (A. Padgett Peterson) writes: >According to this (PC) week's Spencer Katt column, certain anti-viral >software houses are boosting their counts by soliciting viruses for >pay and programmers are taking them up for "big bucks". If that is true, I and and the Virus Bulletim would very much like to know which companies are involved - I would do my best to drive them out of business..... Actually, this reminds me of a chat I had with Todor Todorov - the SysOp of the largest Virus BBS - He said he had samples of 70 viruses not detected by any anti-virus program, and was negotiating with a certain US-based anti-virus company - offering to sell them (and nobody else) the viruses.... - -frisk Fridrik Skulason Technical Editor of the Virus Bulletin (UK) (author of F-PROT) E-Mail: frisk@rhi.hi.is Fax: 354-1-28801
vail@tegra.com (Johnathan Vail) (06/18/91)
frisk@rhi.hi.is (Fridrik Skulason) writes: padgett%tccslr.dnet@mmc.com (A. Padgett Peterson) writes: >According to this (PC) week's Spencer Katt column, certain anti-viral >software houses are boosting their counts by soliciting viruses for >pay and programmers are taking them up for "big bucks". If that is true, I and and the Virus Bulletim would very much like to know which companies are involved - I would do my best to drive them out of business..... And well you should. I would find this hard to believe. I would tend believe Spencer Katt as much as I would Dave Berry or Andy Rooney. I do believe that the anti-virus companies are hyping up the fear of viruses in order to sell more product. I have been working with personal computers since 78 and with the exceptions of the viruses that I wrote myself (the first one was in 1980) and a Mac virus that went around here at work last year I have never seen or heard a first hand account of a virus. Of course I don't do much with shareware or BBS downloading which is where I imagine most of the problems are. jv <<-- Of course I will probably be bummin' when I do get hit... "It's not a cormorant it's not a shag. Its just something in a plastic bag" -- RH _____ | | Johnathan Vail | n1dxg@tegra.com |Tegra| (508) 663-7435 | N1DXG@448.625-(WorldNet) ----- jv@n1dxg.ampr.org {...sun!sunne ..uunet}!tegra!vail