Re: trophie development

Vanja Hrustic <[email protected]> Fri, 26 Mar 2004 16:34:30 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.security.virus.vtools
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On Fri, 26 Mar 2004 10:21:23 -0500
"Covington, Chris" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> Just a question about trophie development.  Why hasn't there been a new
> version since June 2002 when sophie is constantly being revised?  Does
> it have something to do with the nature of the trend vs. sophos products
> (IE sophos changes its API/engine all the time, Trend hasn't changed
> much at all)?

TrendMicro considers their API to be "top secret", and Trophie is result
of reverse engineering.

Sophos provides full SDK, with docs and examples, and therefore Sophie
"progresses" more.

Wish someone could make TrendMicro change their stance on libsavi API.

Vanja