On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 06:12:59 -0500, kony <spam@spam.com> wrote:

>On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 10:54:03 GMT, "SteveH"
><steve.houghREMOVE@MEblueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>Manuel Marino wrote:
>>> On Tue, 13 Nov 2007 00:17:03 +0000, diy-er
>>> <diy-er@privacy.invalid.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2007/1 ... d_updated/
>>>>
>>>> As first reported by El Reg in September a pre-installed Trojan
>>>> named AutoRun-AH was discovered by Kaspersky Labs on Maxtor
>>>> 3200 external hard drives sold in the Netherlands. Maxtor is owned
>>>> Seagate. Initially, Seagate expressed skepticism about the reports.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Well, this means that Kaspersky is really the best antivirus available
>>> for Windows...
>>
>>How does it mean that? Perhaps Kaspersky just got hold of it first.
>>
>>SteveH
>>
>
>Yeah, that doesn't mean crap, if we continually reassigned
>the award of "best" to whoever found any specific virus
>first it would just make us all dizzy keeping track of every
>single virus re-designation of "best" AV. Better would be
>designation hall-of-shame awards for any AV product that
>doesn't incorporate detection for anything after it has been
>known in-the-wild for more than a week or so.

Well, I know one that is not capable of detect specific trojan
viruses... happened to me, and I had to format and install again the
operating system.

Thanks xxxxxx, you made me so happy, I'll never buy again your
products.

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On 17 Nov 2007 18:20:56 GMT
"jameshanley39@yahoo.co.uk" <jameshanley39@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> you are not unusual

You're probably the first to say that

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kony wrote:

> Yeah, that doesn't mean crap, if we continually reassigned
> the award of "best" to whoever found any specific virus
> first it would just make us all dizzy keeping track of every
> single virus re-designation of "best" AV. Better would be
> designation hall-of-shame awards for any AV product that
> doesn't incorporate detection for anything after it has been
> known in-the-wild for more than a week or so.
~~~~

ITYM 'day'?

On Sat, 17 Nov 2007 21:15:52 -0000, "Steve Walker"
<spam-trap@beeb.net> wrote:

>kony wrote:
>
>> Yeah, that doesn't mean crap, if we continually reassigned
>> the award of "best" to whoever found any specific virus
>> first it would just make us all dizzy keeping track of every
>> single virus re-designation of "best" AV. Better would be
>> designation hall-of-shame awards for any AV product that
>> doesn't incorporate detection for anything after it has been
>> known in-the-wild for more than a week or so.
> ~~~~
>
>ITYM 'day'?
>


No, it is unrealistic that the moment a virus is found in
the wild, that the AV company could get a copy of it and all
derivatives, study it, come up with detection code,
integrate that into an update, and get it out on a server
for customers... all within a day. Maybe in some cases they
can and do get this done in a day but it would not be
surprising when they couldn't even if working diligently at
it.