Comments on: Trojan attacks Microsoft's anti-spyware

Windows AntiSpyware is threatened by a Trojan horse that also tries to steal online banking details, a security company warns.

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The story fails to mention that many viruses attempt to disable the anti-virus software from several vendors, it shouldn't be surprising that as new anti-virus software is developed that the builders (ie low grade cretins) of viruses would add code to try and disable that software too.

[jamie.p.walsh]

Wouldn't you know. Not even out of Beta yet

And virus writers are already trying to bash a MS product.

There needs to be International support for legislation to enforce stiffer penalties on virus authors.

Microsoft Security Issues

In News.com section talkback a comment by Jame Walsh 9th of February 2005 said that anti-virus software componies were bashing microsoft over its security problems,

Well Mr Jame Walsh has forgot all the linux and unix users, the home users who complaint about computer crashes,
worm, trojan, viruses writers, hackers, crackers and

the other thousands of companies who file anti-trust suites,

Law enforcement agency's who complain about encrypted software that they can not get around when investigating fraud, child porn, illegal software,and other internet crimes which are all causing these security holes in the first place

Simple solution don't complaint and don't use the internet, remove your anti-virus software and the virus writers will adventually get bore and police will have a field day with your computer dropping in rogue programs themselve and illegal child porn if you challege those in authority, blackmarket software will be useless

Or Microsoft can sit back and watch people say we sorry Mr Bill Gates for destorying your company and it software because we human can not keep up technology advancements that your company is engaged in and we did not try and help them patch up these security holes,

And these virus, trojans, and worms are nothing more than writtern lines of codes that already exist in every new piece of software that have been modified as some update that can easily get in through existing firewalls, anti-virus, spyware software and no amount of security can stop it unless users take matter into there own hands start manually check for ongoing changes to basic software programs files,

So all you business managers and home users start checking you computer software for these rogue software files and don't just relie on some company to do it for you all the time it is like car maintence some times the owner has to get there hands dirty and other times it requires an expert to fixs or a person who becomes sick sometime it's simply requires mums home cooking and other times you need a surgeon in a hospital.

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Eric O'Malley
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Microsoft

WEll we all knew it would happen. Microsoft had to go and put their name on something so every virus maker could try and attack it! what ****** retards. Giant Anti-Spyware was the best and now Microsoft is going to ruin it just by having their name put on it, ******* **** id like to beat bill gates in the face with a hammer just for his stupidity. I mean look at what hes done to windows! service pack 2 is a pile of monkey **** and you cant even go to microsoft website without downloading or getting a worm.