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Posted by nemo_outis on August 18, 2006, 10:49 am
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> Greetings
>
> I heard a rumour a while back claiming that some of the major security
> vendors had intimated that they would ignore Federal-inspired spyware
> if their programmes should happen to come accross these. The notable
> exception I believe was Sophos.
>
> What I would like to ask the readers of this forum is firstly, whether
> there is any substance to the above rumour;
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> and secondly, if so, whether there are any stand-alone removal tools
> that would indeed detect and remove such spyware programmes.
>
> Thanks
>
> Nick B.
> RSA
I am reasonably confident that, being Russian, Kaspersky (arguably the best
anti-virus) will not be so accommodating to USian TLAs. And there are
other non-USian vendors as well (and for specialty products such as anti-
Trojans, rootkits, spyware as well as for generic antivirus).
Regards,
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