Frenchman found guilty for exposing leaks

Guillaume Tena was on trial for exposing some faults in the Viguard antivirus software, thereby disputing their 100% success ratio.
Here's the link to the article...

I don't know their product, and I sure don't intend to, I don't know if I like their attitude.

 

Talk about being bitch slapped and backstabbed instead of being praised. sucks.

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Hahahaha..
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I thought this could only happen in United States of Lawsuits!
I stand corrected

 

Grr....I dont believe this, its against the Human Rights. How can any company do this?

 

Vgauards response http://www.viguard.com/en/news_view.php?num=88

 

Good to see the reponse. It's hardly enough, though, most of the allegations may well be valid. Viguards answers seem inadequate, but I'm no expert here.
I do like the colorfull picture midpage, don't see the usefullness, but it looks good.

 

yea looks that way. http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1758513,00.asp

 

Hi,

Well...there's many polemics (forums, hack magazines) in France since this story started.

I know the product very well which is a mix beteween AbtrusionProtector and ProcessGuard.
In this story, the problem is the Guillaume T./Guillermito and Teagam/Viguard demeanour/behaviour.

I think they both put themselve in the wrong:

*Guillaume T. has not get a real license (there was no trial version in the past) in order to test Viguard.

*And his demonstration is not really scientific (he's suspected to have disabled an important feature in Viguard).

*Teagam has a pretentious marketing (in the past, they claim that Viguard can detect 100% of known und unknown virus);

*Their behaviour against a man who tried to demonstrate a vulnerability in their product is a little bit scandalous.

I can much appreciate Vigard, but i really disapprove Teagam's behaviour.
Finally in this story, Guillaume T. may be not in the wrong, but Teagam too.

For more informations in english, there's 2 articles in the next link.
In the more recent (march 9 2005), one of the member of K-Otik (team like Secunia) says that it's the end of the Disclosure in France.

http://news.search.com/search?q=viguard&search.x=0&search.y=0

PS. For the link about Andrea's test from AV.org, i'm agree that Viguard is really easy to terminate ( with APT for instance) but there's not really problems with MSFT Antispyware .

Best Regards