Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> Anti-Virus Testing and Consumer Reports
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> | Consumer Reports recently came under heavy fire from some in the
> | anti-virus industry for creating some 5,500 new virus variants to see
> | how well a dozen leading products fared in detecting the new nasties.
> |
> | [...]
> |
> | Some of the signatories noted -- via various media reports about the
> | scandal -- that with so many viruses already in circulation today
> | (estimates vary from 100,000 to 180,000) it was hardly necessary for
> | Consumer Reports to gin up new ones that could, in theory, be leaked into
> | the wild.
> `----
>
> http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2006/08/antivirus_testing_and_consumer_1.html
Wow. That's what they call by the bucketload.
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