RE: how broken are antivirus products?

Your experience would seem to contradict what they told me at the AVAR conference in Hong Kong in December of last year - that they now reveal all they know about a virus, even if they do not have a cure for it.

We are trying to increase the cooperation level amongst vendors and customers via the AVI-EWS by putting them together to discuss new malware as soon as it is spotted. Most major AV companies are participants and we've seen some information exchanges. Sounds like there is still a need to elevate this to a higher level.

> OTOH there is no excuse whatsoever for the practice that the major AV
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Robert Vibert <rv@avien.org>
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Anti-Virus Information Exchange Network
Anti-Virus Information & Early Warning System http://www.avien.org Received on Tue Nov 26 17:27:59 2002