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Message-ID: <40D332D3.9090704@webexc.com>
From: asp at webexc.com (Ben Timby)
Subject: MS Anti Virus?
I think everyone missed Nick's point. Since reversers work for the
competition, don't you think they would find and use the M$ undocumented
API? M$ would not be dumb enough to try it, since their competition in
this market is comprised of reverse engineers, who would simply
"counter-innovate" by using the M$ API :-).
Nick FitzGerald wrote:
> Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu wrote:
>
>
>>Naah.. They'd never use an undocumented API to benefit their product at the
>>expense of the competition, would they? ;)
>
>
> In this case, no.
>
> Given that a lot of AV technical work is reverse engineering and that
> most of the best AV reversers are not among those MS "acquired" from
> RAV or who have joined MS from other AV developers subsequently (not
> that they haven't got some very good reversers, just there are still an
> awful ot of them elsewhere), I doubt even MS is stupid enough to
> consider trying something like this.
>
>
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