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Hackers seed malware on Indian anti-virus site

Geoff Mackenzie

Better check if my machine's been compromised ... 

... oh no, wait, it's all right. Windows again. No problem.

Anonymous Coward

heh 

Used to be one of the most common infection vectors - viruses on copies of anti-virus update disks.

I'm sure that's how I got b1

Anonymous Coward

Ah yes it is being fine and dandily 

Alien

I called them to see if I had been compromised and all my servicings and internets are fixed or maybe better than normal which will make woindows go microsoft 2 times faster but maybe 4 times quicker if I am being running only on a tuesday or perhaps even maybe wednesday

Steve Roper

And the obligatory conspiracy theory... 

Black Helicopters

...is that this was the work of US-based antivirus companies like Trend or McAffee, who could have sabotaged the site in protest at these third-world countries stealing all the programming jobs and working for 5c per hour. Or simply to discredit a foreign rival. Or something.

Mine's the one with the tinfoil beanie, poncho, gauntlets, facemask, leggings and socks...

Myro Stadler

It looks like a virus, smells like a virus.... 

Go

Bah!

Adopt the Glock internet security model; a Glock does not have a safety, you pull the trigger or you don't.

Philip

Paranoid 

Coat

Is this perhaps the first attempt to infiltrate an AV vendor’s development environment and leave a legacy for years to come?