what kind of people is Sophos hiring?

[Lord Evermore]

http://money.cnn.com/2007/03/01/news/companies/virus/index.htm?cnn=yes

"Traditionally hackers always went after Microsoft's anti-virus programs. But now they're increasingly targeting other commonly used programs such as Symantec programs and others," he said.

MS had no antivirus software for a decade. Only recently did they aquire Giant's anti-spyware and RAV Antivirus to make Windows Live OneCare and Safety Center. Even if hackers were actually attacking those en masse and suddenly ignoring Symantec and the others, how can anyone say they "traditionally" attacked Microsoft's antivirus programs but left others alone? MS has zero AV products, Symantec and McAfee have the majority of the market, and a few others take the rest, but MS AV was the target all this time?

Even when MS had AV software, attacks against AV software in general weren't common, hackers weren't exploiting obscure vulnerabilities in general back then. Viruses were just applications with malicious intent really, doing what any other app could do. MSAV wasn't even then being "targetted" particularly.

 

[quikah]

The AV industry is kind of dying ATM, most good people have high tailed it out of there to an industry with a future.