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Open Letter to the anti-virus Industry:
Last week Microsoft's CTO, Craig Mundie said the anti-virus industry, our industry, has now entered its second phase, where we are trying to find "vaccines" to counter computer viruses and other attacks. This comes 16 years after Fred Cohen, the man who gave viruses their name, applied for funding from the National Science Foundation to look at ways to defeat viral threats but was turned down.
The question is; could we already be in a virus free world had Cohen’s funding gone ahead? The truth is, we will never know. Just two years later IBM sold the first commercial anti-virus software and our industry was born.
I hope some of you were lucky enough to be at the beginning of this market, with the all the excitement that goes with being at the forefront of a new industry. I myself have been in technology for over 25 years and I still thrive on pushing back boundaries and not only solving current problems, but also anticipating future ones.
Not even 15 years in, this is still a new industry and yet I see one that is unable to accept alternative thinking on how to deal with viral threats, unable to accept a "vaccine" might already exist. When I mention to anyone from the AV industry that I can stop all viral threats, known or unknown, I encounter a reaction which is completely closed to the possibility that maybe, just maybe there is an absolute solution.
As a code writer I have spent my life looking for ways around everything. A decent code writer has to always challenge the status quo. Without our innate curiosity and our arrogant “we can do anything” attitude there would be no computers, let alone viruses.
I know my technology could drastically alter your business model. I understand that customers’ not needing software updates isn’t what the shareholders want to hear. But it won’t alter the fact that if I am right, the AV world will change drastically anyway.
At a conference earlier this year in Toronto, I was greatly heartened to hear representatives from Ford and Boeing challenging the AV industry to do more to protect them and their businesses. This open letter is a challenge to you. To not avert your eyes from the possibility I might be right, to challenge me to prove my technology and for you to take my "vaccine" and prove me wrong.
Yours Faithfully
Nick Scales Chief Architect GlassWall
Nick Scales is the CTO and CEO of avecho. He is the architect behind GlassWall a technology which provides absolute protection from malware and viral threats. GlassWall does not rely on signature definitions, is not heuristics nor sandboxing. It's footprint is small enough to fit into chipsets, routers, NICs, cell phones and even modem cables.
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