Security Vendors frag themselves

Security Vendors continue to shoot themselves

in the Foot.

"Ethical concerns mean that security firms do not allow their infrastructure to be used in sending spam or running attacks against victims. By monitoring such instructions it's therefore possible for cybercrooks to program command and control servers to disable or simply ignore these machines, thus depriving security firms of vital intelligence in how zombie botnets are operating in the real world."

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Some bot nets run 13 million zombies.

And the Security Vendors have problems letting

just on of those infected PCs run  to collect 

intelligence.

Their ethical concerns are at the very least misguided

and at most incompetence.

The hackers and malware Vendors are kicking the Security

Vendors ass at every turn.

And they are playing a poor second best, and promoting

their security products with misnomers if not out right

lies.

The stogy ineffective Security Vendors are are blind 

sidling the public by developing policys and programing

methods that require all other security products to be

uninstalled and not making their security products

compatible with other Vendors.

They are not defending their turf, there are 500+

fake Security Vendors on the WWW now.

Our testes of the basic function of these vendors

points to their incompetence, most of the time 

virus are spotted by anti vir programs 80% of the

time, if you use multiple anti vir programs this

increases to around 95%.

But the vendors block the use of other Security products

with their products, making the user less safe.

I would suggest that "Ethical concerns mean that security firms do not allow their infrastructure to be used in sending spam or running attacks against victims."

are misguided.

Doctors run double blind tests where one group gets sugar pills while the other 

group gets the real medicine.

Some times the members that don't get the real Med.

DIE.

If the Medical profession can ethically run double blind tests

then certainly the Security Vendors can allow some

of the millions of bots to run to collect intelligence to kill

the bot farms.

The Security Vendors are already so far behind

the hackers, they don't need unnecessary misguided

handicaps preventing them from collecting Intelligence.

So far I rate the Security Vendors a "D" failing grade.

They are NOT getting the job done.

Gerald

Internet Anthropologist

Tactical Internet Systems analyst.

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