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The Lounge What is on Your Mind? Business origins - MalWareBytes - interesting read Post 303037136 by Neo on Wednesday 24th of July 2019 12:25:20 PM
Old 07-24-2019
Yeah, so as a long time cyber security person, I have never been impressed with companies like MalwareBytes who profit off the insecurity of Windows.

I'm not accusing any company of wrong doings, but there have been many scenarios in circles of cyber security professionals where antivirus companies conspire (or work) with malware creators to have malware released into the wild and for "an antivirus company" to already have an antiviral update(s) ready.

The entire ecosystem is broken; so personally, I am not impressed with the MalwareBytes story. I do not trust any of these companies, since they are not accountable and transparent to the public.

The real "success story" would be for governments or regulators to mandate that these software companies secure their products and be responsible for consumer losses and damages, or to otherwise regulate these greedy high tech companies who are only concerned with quarterly profit reports to their stockholders. Ditto for the new breed of information brokers like FB.

The entire cybersecurity industry is a "self-licking ice cream cone", where the more malware there is, the more money anti-malware companies make. It's really dystopian.

Soon (not sure the exact time), it will be the same in AI. There will be an entire industry built around securing us from AI, hackers attacking AI, AI gone bad, etc. It's really a dystopian future where tech creates more software which needs "protectors" to protect us from the harm it will do. Meanwhile, the huge tech giants get richer, the land costs rise in high tech areas, etc.

It's corporate greed out of control, really.
 

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Mail::Milter::Module::VirusBounceSpew(3pm)		User Contributed Perl Documentation		Mail::Milter::Module::VirusBounceSpew(3pm)

NAME
Mail::Milter::Module::VirusBounceSpew - milter to reject antivirus messages typically sent to forged "senders" SYNOPSIS
use Mail::Milter::Module::VirusBounceSpew; my $milter = new Mail::Milter::Module::VirusBounceSpew; my $milter2 = &VirusBounceSpew; # convenience DESCRIPTION
This module rejects messages at the DATA phase by searching for known signs of misconfigured antivirus software. An increasing problem on the Internet as of this writing is a tendency for viruses and trojans to send mail with a forged envelope from address. This is triggering antivirus warning messages back to these forged senders. METHODS
new() Creates a VirusBounceSpew milter object. The match rules are internally hardcoded and may be examined by reading the module source. set_message(MESSAGE) Sets the message used when rejecting messages. This method returns a reference to the object itself, allowing this method call to be chained. BUGS
The rules could be much simpler, but at risk of catching legit mail. A future release will simplify the regex tests. AUTHOR
Todd Vierling, <tv@duh.org> <tv@pobox.com> SEE ALSO
Mail::Milter::Object perl v5.8.8 2004-02-26 Mail::Milter::Module::VirusBounceSpew(3pm)
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