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Name one AV company that "looks the other way"?
by _nullandnull_ 12y ago
Name one AV company that "looks the other way"?
- ChuckMcM 12y agoMcAfee
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- Someone1234 12y agoMicrosoft AV, Norton, McAfee, etc. We know this, how? Because we can look at Google's virustotal and see when a sample was first submitted and when it was "detected." With typical malware there is a fairly short window between A and B, with US G malware there is a HUGE window (months, sometimes years). Either the US G just gets very lucky that their samples aren't ever looked at deeper or more likely they have national security agreements with most of the large US based anti-virus firms to hush hush.
- _nullandnull_ 12y ago"looks the other way" and poor detection are two separate things. I'm sorry but you don't know what you are talking about.
- im3w1l 12y agoThis is a very interesting claim, and I want to check for myself. Could you give more details? Name of usg malware? How to check time of submission and detection?
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- higherpurpose 12y agoDon't forget Kaspersky (at least for Russian gov malware). I believe their CEO came out in favor of surveillance in a blog post for a brief period.
- Crito 12y agoIf Microsoft AV looks the other way for one set and Kaspersky looks the other way for another set, is it possible that there is a value of using a union of the two? I assume Microsoft AV isn't going to look the other way for Russian exploits, unless the US is also using them, and vice versa.