Re: idea

["Tomas L. Byrnes" <tomb () byrneit net>]

I actually looked into this, and it's quite different from what Farnham
and co have developed.

Your service is great for SMTP and Web Downloads, but, absent the
lightweight agent feature (and your agents are anything but lightweight)
only addresses a small part of the problem.

I had a client get badly infected last year while using Trend
Enterprise, with infections that Sophos, Bitdefender and Sunbelt all
found.

At the risk of starting a flame war (though you did use the forum for
marketing, so IMNSHO you asked for it), there's a reason Trend refuses
to be tested on Virustotal.

Trend used to be the best, and I was a big fan for a long time, not any
more.



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Ferguson [mailto:fergdawgster () gmail com]
> Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2009 1:17 PM
> To: Tomas L. Byrnes
> Cc: Alex Eckelberry; Ben Li; funsec () linuxbox org; RandallM
> Subject: Re: [funsec] idea
>
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> On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 12:39 PM, Tomas L. Byrnes <tomb () byrneit net>
> wrote:
>
> > The concept of distributed/cloudAV has been worked on by the
> University
> > of Michigan crew that did the fundamental work that led to Arbor
> > Networks:
> >
> > http://www.eecs.umich.edu/fjgroup/cloudav/
> >
> > It's similar in detection concept to Sunbelt's new product in that it
> > uses multiple engines, and to the current discussion in that it is a
> > distributed system.
>
> Admittedly, this is also something we (Trend Micro) started working on
a
> couple of years ago, especially the "distributed protection" components
> in
> "the cloud" -- we were one of the first to deploy. Not meant to be a
> marketing point, but FYI:
>
> http://itw.trendmicro.com/smart-protection-network/
>
> - - ferg
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> "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
> Engineering Architecture for the Internet
> fergdawgster(at)gmail.com
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