Hi all Over the past weekend I've seen discussion about the stupidity of posting direct links to live virus code, the spam value of 'your computer is infected and we found it!' messages by poorly designed notification software in a/v applications and a running commentary on how long SCO is and will be down for. Seeing as the group is now a free-form multi-topic group, I propose we start discussing the difference between Microsoft Office and Open Office so we can fully disclose our feelings about same...or we could drag ourselves back to full disclosure and move on from what our opinions are in regards to SCO/MYDOOM/(place your least favourite av company here).
...but, for my devalued two cents: 1: posting live code is not very clever, especially considering live virus code is usually available from other dubious sources anyway (and the flak you receive for posting links/code isn't worth it). 2: notification e-mail from anti-virus software is just a 'feature' that served a purpose (arguably) a few years ago. Now that the average worm uses spoofing, the notification features should be removed. We don't need more UE flooding inboxes. 3: SCO is down and will be until it is back up. Get over it gang, we all knew it would happen, why bother with a minute by minute account... "SCO is down..." "Yep, SCO is down..." "Uh-hu, still down..." "mmmm, SCO is down..." "Dang, SCO is *still* down..." Please flame me off-list, full-disclosure doesn't mean you have to post your every thought to the public list. Cheers, Brad > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, February 02, 2004 11:34 AM > To: Paul Schmehl > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Full-Disclosure] MyDoom.b samples taken down > > On Sun, 01 Feb 2004 19:17:01 CST, Paul Schmehl > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > Then how do you explain F-Prot's recent article condemning other AV > > companies for doing the "spamvertising" you complain about? The AV > > industry is not mono-lithic and there are many internal > disagreements > > that the public are never privy to. > > One company finally breaks ranks two or three *years* after > it's recognized that it's a problem. > > Please name the other top-10 A/V companies that followed > F-Prot's lead in fixing this issue in their products. > _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
