Virus Bulletin owned by Sophos?

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http://whois.mtgsy.net/?ff=http://www.virusbulletin.com/
(made a whois lookup to that adress)

PacNames Whois Server Version 1.1.0

Domain name: VIRUSBULLETIN.COM
Registrar: PacNames
Referral URL: http://www.pacnames.com/

Domain Registrant: TOTALNIC-91537 (REGISTRANT@VIRUSBULLETIN.COM)
Virus Bulletin

The Pentagon
Abingdon Science Park
Abingdon Oxfordshire OX14 3YP
GB

Telephone: +00.00000000
Fax: +00.00000000

Administrative, Technical Contact: TOTALNIC-58467 (REGISTRAR@SOPHOS.COM)
Malcolm Howe
Sophos Plc
The Pentagon
Abingdon Science Park
Abingdon Oxfordshire OX14 3YP
GB

2

If this is a fact, than it makes their independence a little suspect…

3

I agree with you on that it now sounds suspect.

4

This is the network report of tracing www.virusbtn.com by NeoTrace Express:

This is the RIPE Whois query server 2.
The objects are in RPSL format.

Note: the default output of the RIPE Whois server
is changed. Your tools may need to be adjusted. See
http://www.ripe.net/db/news/abuse-proposal-20050331.html
for more details.

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Note: This output has been filtered.
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[b] Information related to ‘194.203.134.128 - 194.203.134.255’

inetnum: 194.203.134.128 - 194.203.134.255
netname: SOPHPLC02
descr: Sophos Plc
country: GB
admin-c: PF3651-RIPE
tech-c: PF3651-RIPE
status: ASSIGNED PA
mnt-by: AS1849-MNT
source: RIPE Filtered

person: Paul Fisher
address: Sophos Plc
address: The Pentagon
address: Abingdon Science Park
address: Abingdon
address: Oxon
address: OX14 3YP
address: UK
phone: +44 1235 544105
fax-no: +44 1235 559935
e-mail: paul.fisher@sophos.com
nic-hdl: PF3651-RIPE
mnt-by: AS1849-MNT
source: RIPE Filtered[/b]

Information related to ‘194.200.0.0/14AS1849’

route: 194.200.0.0/14
descr: PIPEX-BLOCK4-7
origin: AS1849
holes: 194.201.253.0/24, 194.202.0.0/22, 194.202.4.0/23, 194.203.46.0/24, 194.203.192.0/23,

  •         194.203.194.0/24, 194.203.247.0/24

remarks: UUNET UK filter inbound on prefixes longer than /24
remarks: Please send abuse notification to abuse@uk.uu.net
mnt-by: AS1849-MNT
mnt-by: WCOM-EMEA-RICE-MNT
source: RIPE Filtered

This is Sophos Plc, UK , I think ::slight_smile:

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Virus Bulletin and Sophos reside in the same building, so it’s quite likely they share some machinery as well… :wink:

6

Sorry but that only makes it more suspicious.
The hen and the fox don’t usually reside in the same house… ;D ;D

7

Sophos affiliation list:
http://www.sophos.com/companyinfo/industry/

now you can’t cross them all off your lists :wink:

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Hi Toadbee,

From this link
you will see they are even sharing servers. The affiliation is there.

Greets,

polonus

9

Yeah, that’s the machinery I had in my mind.
I didn’t mean excavators ;D

10
The affiliation is there.
That just about rules out impartiality, unbiased, independent, trustworthy, scrupulous, etc etc :o :o
11

Ridiculous not independent… Shame on antiviruses tests :stuck_out_tongue: