Why antivirus companies like mine failed to catch Flame and Stuxnet

[TDL]

http://arstechnica.com/security/2012/06/why-antivirus-companies-like-mine-failed-to-catch-flame-and-stuxnet/

[ColinWright]

Also reported in wired.com and submitted:

Here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4054638 <- Has the comments

Here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4056096

HNSearch failed to find either of those.

http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=title%3Amin...

That's very poor, and I don't understand it. Brutal though it sounds, SearchYC really was much better.

[TDL → ColinWright]

Thanks for the links, I submitted this primarily to see what HNers opinions were (sec is a bit too far out of my domain at the moment.)