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Gizza job, virus writers ask AV industry

cb911

cb911

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the latest MyDoom variant contains a hidden message - the creators asking for a job in the anti-virus industry. :eek:

http://www.theregister.com/2004/09/10/mydoom_job_plea/

obviously, that would never happen. and if it did... and the public found out that someone like that was working at the company, i know i'd never buy one of their products.

however, i am all for these hidden messages in virus, funny stuff. :p
 
LethalWolfe said:
Actually, this probably not unusual. Who better to stop virii than those that used to create them?


Lethal
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Indeed, heard the story of Frank Abagnale?

Counterfeited millions in checks, and now owns one of the best and biggest check anti-crime businesses in the world.
 
MongoTheGeek said:
Or have you seen the movie? And of course the absolute irony of him appearing on "To Tell the Truth."

Kevin Mitnick does security now to.
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the old one or the new one? cause the old one sucks but the new one with leonardo dicaprio is awesome!
 
cb911 said:
obviously, that would never happen. and if it did... and the public found out that someone like that was working at the company, i know i'd never buy one of their products.
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Come on, it happens all the time, in the security industry burglars are recruited... i've been given home security demonstrations by felons before. Insurance investigators use people convicted of insurance fraud... You probably use products/services that use this same philosophy elsewhere.

There are certainly virus writers and ex-hackers in the computer security field today...

paul
 
in that article one person from an AV company (in Germany i think) said that the skills used to write a virus are quite different to those needed to protect against them. well, i guess well never know unless we get a chance to talk to a virus writer who's tried to write anti-virus software...

i can understand about that Abagnale fellow, but writing software has got to be just a bit different.
 
cb911 said:
in that article one person from an AV company (in Germany i think) said that the skills used to write a virus are quite different to those needed to protect against them. well, i guess well never know unless we get a chance to talk to a virus writer who's tried to write anti-virus software...
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Of course they'll say that. It's proper PR.

i can understand about that Abagnale fellow, but writing software has got to be just a bit different.
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Hire a virus writer to write virii in the lab and then have the a/v writers code a way to stop it. If you employ a guy that writes killer virii and you have a/v guys that can, because of months/years of working w/Mr. Virus, write a/v code in record time, thus allowing you to release updates before other a/v companies, don't you think that would be good for business?


Lethal
 
cb911 said:
obviously, that would never happen. and if it did... and the public found out that someone like that was working at the company, i know i'd never buy one of their products.:p
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T-Online, the AOL of Europe, hired guys in the past that successfully hacked their system. I think that such a behaviour might be shortsighted, though, as it just encourages others to hack, as well (besides that, writing a virus is really not that hard, especially if you are using well-documented security holes).
 
okay, so maybe companies do things like that... but they're doing a good job of keeping it quiet.

does Microsoft really use alot of script kiddies?
 
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