Blimey!
Zango?s high-profile lawsuit against anti-spyware company Kaspersky Lab is ?akin to a cat burglar suing the alarm company,? Kaspersky?s law firm argued to a federal appellate court.
In papers filed this week with the 9th Circuit, Kaspersky said that Zango has no grounds to sue the security company for removing Zango?s software, which serves pop-up ads. ?Allowing Zango?s suit will have a chilling effect on the Internet security industry and, ultimately, on use of the Internet,? Kaspersky argues.
Calling security software vendors ?the sentinels of the Internet,? Kaspersky argued that forcing such companies ?to allow malware to pass through a computer?s ?gates? unchallenged will compromise computer security and, ultimately, the free flow of information over the Internet.?