full-disclosure - AV companies better hire good lawyers soon.

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Message-ID: <87r7p4datr.fsf@deneb.enyo.de>
From: fw at deneb.enyo.de (Florian Weimer)
Subject: AV companies better hire good lawyers soon.

> What exactly are they charged with for having a compromised Windows box in
> their possession?  I am curious, I had never heard of that.

Credit card fraud, probably.

There are also reports that someone with child porn on his hard disk
got away because he claimed that the virus did it.  The case I
remember was in the UK, but I think there also was one in the U.S.