[LINK] FBI "Trojan horse" triggers alarms

[Howard Lowndes]

And as soon as that becomes public knowledge then the public will
rightfully dump Symantic products.

On Tue, 26 Mar 2002, David Lochrin wrote:

>    All the FBI has to do is to develop a Trojan email attachment and
> provide its "virus signature" to Symantic, who seem to have the lion's
> share of the anti-virus software market.  Then they pursuade Symantic
> to patch their AV software so it always runs this virus before raising
> the alert.  Simple, really.

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