Kaspersky, Symantec admit to keeping their users vuln to Gov-made Malware

[anuseems]

The Regin malware shows strong indications of being produced by a 1st World Government.

So are anti-virus vendors detecting the malware or helping it's creators victimize infected users?

We have our answer.

said by Mashable :

Symantec's Thakur said that they had been investigating Regin since last year, but only felt "comfortable" publishing details of it now.

Raiu, the researcher from Kaspersky, said they had been tracking Regin for "several years" but rushed to publish the report after a journalist contacted them last week asking for comments about Regin, indicating a competitor was about to come out with their own report.

For Prins, the reason is completely different. "We didn't want to interfere with NSA/GCHQ operations," he told Mashable, explaining that everyone seemed to be waiting for someone else to disclose details of Regin first"

Mikko Hypponen, a renowned security expert and chief research officer for F-Secure, said that while they had detected some parts of Regin since 2009, they were not at liberty to discuss their discovery due to confidentiality agreements"

Kaspersky and Symantec made a clear choice to protect their lucrative Gov Contracts, instead of their users. Given their histories, it isn't much of a surprise.

F-Secure I'm less sure about. Mikko Hypponen has been a vocal critic of overreaching government surveillance. However his answer was carefully parsed to not say anything and I'd wager F-Secure is placing Gov interests ahead of anyone else.

bootnote: Emsisoft was the 1st A/V company I know of to clearly state they don't whitelist commercial keyloggers.

I wonder what their position on Gov made malware is.

http://mashable.com/2014/11/25/regin-spy-malware-nsa-gchq/

[0veR]

Of course they are thats why China is droped Kaspersky and Symantec

[Vjcobra]

.Practically no one is absolutely innocence nowaday. :) It takes a thief to catch a thief, I guess. :D

[capt_blake]

Hm, I wonder what the stands of ESET is on this particular matter (Regin)...(or did they comment already?)
..maybe, quite similar to the choices of Kaspersky and Symantec...I don't know.
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[PrEzi]

Hm, I wonder what the stands of ESET is on this particular matter (Regin)...(or did they comment already?)

..maybe, quite similar to the choices of Kaspersky and Symantec...I don't know.

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Yup.... in case anyone will see a comment from ESET -- please post it here.... This would definitely interest me too.

[212eta]

F-Secure... ;)

[humble3d]

Many are ALL Crony Clowns