AV vendor Comodo calls out the AV industry

Here's an interesting read along the same lines as many of my rants about the AV industry. Exerpt:

In the digital world, Abdulhayoglu believes viruses are the equivalent of a real-world criminal, and anti-virus vendors release details on the malware signature only “once it has become irrelevant”.

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Merger of Cybercriminal Businesses

For the past several weeks, security researchers have been watching the merger of two of the most notorious banking trojans used by cybercrimals to commit fraud against consumers and businesses. Brian Krebs has reported on it and now even Fox News has picked up on it.

Internet criminals are not longer just individuals with a penchant for computer shenanigans. These cretins have learned how to rob banks. So like any other business that has found a new, lucrative market, their efforts are going into perfecting that ability. This merger is just another business decision - it's just not a legitimate business.

Stay safe. Use Chrome, CCleaner, Foxit and MS Security Essentials - Adobe Acrobat/Reader/Flash as separate applications, are not needed any longer. They're included in Chrome.

Tom
(PS...all links above are shortened, by me, using Google's URL shortener)

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