Virus Bulletin owned by Sophos?

[o2xygen]

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

[bob3160]

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

[radicalb21]

I agree with you on that it now sounds suspect.

[MWassef]

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
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  for more details.
 
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  Note: This output has been filtered.
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  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

  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 

[Vlk]

Virus Bulletin and Sophos reside in the same building, so it's quite likely they share some machinery as well...

[bob3160]

Virus Bulletin and Sophos reside in the same building, so it's quite likely they share some machinery as well...

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

[toadbee]

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

now you can't cross them all off your lists 

[polonus]

Hi Toadbee,

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

Greets,

polonus

[Vlk]

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

[bob3160]

The affiliation is there.

That just about rules out impartiality, unbiased, independent, trustworthy, scrupulous, etc etc 

[Lisandro]

Ridiculous not independent... Shame on antiviruses tests