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.
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| 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.
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http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2006/08/antivirus_testing_and_consumer_1.html
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