Fergie's Tech Blog

The Antispyware Consipiracy

Since the release of the first antivirus products many people have believed in a conspiracy theory where antivirus companies generate their own market by paying virus writers to develop and release viruses.

I don’t subscribe to that theory and trust the major security vendors, but recent trends show that there’s a fuzzy line between second-tier antispyware vendors and the malware they clean.

posted by Fergie @ 1/03/2006 06:30:00 AM