🚀 go-pugleaf

IT has now run for 3 years without any known virus bypassing the
defenses.

Although we have made improvements over the last 3 years, it is
somewhat amazing to us that none of the over 1500 new viruses
discovered in the last 3 years has been able to bypass our version
from late 1989.  Many get part of the way through, and some get to the
point where the syst is allmost unuseable, but none have gone
undetected, and none have been unrecoverable!

Generic virus defenses seem to have become reasonably matured..

By the way, unlike the scanner developers, ASP has continued to
publish the details of how to design a strong generic virus defense.
AS a result, we have several strong competitors who are always chasing
us, and always outselling us.  The reality is that in this commercial
world, our software copyrights do not protect us from this, and since
Patents are too expensive and unstable in the software world of today,
the ONLY protection that works is the protection of being owned by a
big rich company.  (With the reverse engineering ruling of late, we
cannot even maintain any trade secrets in our software since or
competitors are freely allowed to disassemble our software and design
the same thing over using our methods).

For the above reasons, I daily deal with the problem of providing
information on how to build better defenses vs. protecting my income
by keeping our techniquers secret.  Unlike those at a University or a
big company, it directly impacts my income (in a negative way) every
time I publish a paper on virus defenses.  In my opinion, everyone
should submit their techniques to a refereed journal.  The reason is
simple.

	In the scanner world, a 6 month lead time is plenty, and that
is how long (at a minimum) it takes before your article gets published
in a journal.

	The only problem is the reviewers, who have historically
published my results (and probably others as well) in non-refereed
forums before my papers got to press.  If the reviewers (who are
anonymous) don't have the integrity to maintain the confidentiality of
papers before they are published, the system fall apart pretty
quickly.

	Oh well, I have digressed enough from my happy anniversary
message.  Have a nice malicious-virus-free day.
		FC

p.s. I wish I could edit out the spelling errors before sending these
mail messages - do you get all the ^h's on your screen too?