Re: Ridiculous weakness of Norton and McAffee

From: [ Doc Jeff ] (me@privacy.net)
Date: 10/27/02 

From: "[    Doc Jeff    ]" <me@privacy.net>
Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2002 02:11:33 -0800

On Sat, 26 Oct 2002 23:50:12 GMT, Lars M. Hansen
<badnews@hansenonline.net> wrote:

>On 26 Oct 2002 23:17:46 GMT, UBCHI2 spoketh
>
>>How can these major companies sell security products without spyware scanning?
>>Spyware passes throught the virus checks and other checks of the top security
>>software products.
>>
>
>Yes, since spyware is not a virus, a virus scanner wouldn't pick it
>up... Doesn't sound flawed to me.

        Norton's AV checks for and identifies "Hacking Tools". Why not
spyware too?

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