Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on July 18, 2006 02:05 AM
Two and a half years ago--
On January 29th, 2004, TechNewsWorld published an article by Jay Lyman, <a href="http://www.technewsworld.com/story/32723.html" title="technewsworld.com">MyDoom.B Variant Spreads, Blocks Access to Security Updates</a technewsworld.com>. That article quoted McAfee Avert virus research manager Craig Schmugar:
Schmugar said the fact that both MyDoom.A and the MyDoom.B variant can be set to send spam Latest News about spam indicates a financial motive.
"Somebody's getting paid to do this," Schmugar said.
Despite this statement from a McAfee manager, another McAfee employee told a different story.
A week later, on February 5, 2005, the UK publication The Guardian, in <a href="http://technology.guardian.co.uk/online/security/story/0,,1144137,00.html" title="guardian.co.uk">Anatomy of a virus</a guardian.co.uk>, quoted Jack Clark, a technology consultant at McAfee Associates:
"Whoever wrote MyDoom is definitely a Linux fan."
That's a pretty unequivocal statement from McAfee's employee. Further, it appears that he was speaking on behalf of McAfee in the UK's popular press.
Fast forward to now--
This latest smear that Joe Barr reports on here is hidden behind McAfee's registration wall. I just don't really care enough to read it... unless it's actionable libel.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on July 18, 2006 02:05 AMTwo and a half years ago--
On January 29th, 2004, TechNewsWorld published an article by Jay Lyman, <a href="http://www.technewsworld.com/story/32723.html" title="technewsworld.com">MyDoom.B Variant Spreads, Blocks Access to Security Updates</a technewsworld.com>. That article quoted McAfee Avert virus research manager Craig Schmugar:
Despite this statement from a McAfee manager, another McAfee employee told a different story.
A week later, on February 5, 2005, the UK publication The Guardian, in <a href="http://technology.guardian.co.uk/online/security/story/0,,1144137,00.html" title="guardian.co.uk">Anatomy of a virus</a guardian.co.uk>, quoted Jack Clark, a technology consultant at McAfee Associates:
That's a pretty unequivocal statement from McAfee's employee. Further, it appears that he was speaking on behalf of McAfee in the UK's popular press.
Fast forward to now--
This latest smear that Joe Barr reports on here is hidden behind McAfee's registration wall. I just don't really care enough to read it... unless it's actionable libel.
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