Re: I'm not buying this..
Go back to the early days of Kaspersky. There was a virus that no one else had caught and suddenly this "unknown" company in Russia hit the mainstream media headlines about detecting it. There was a lot of suspicion in the IT world that Kaspersky created it, launched it on the world, then announced that they "spotted it" and were able to "protect" you from it. A rather nasty critter that virus as I recall.
But then, the whole industry has had rumors of similar shenanigans...