Re: Consumer Reports Slammed for Creating 'Test' Viruses

[Blue Boar <BlueBoar () thievco com>]

Toralv_Dirro () mcafee com wrote:
> a) it invalidates your test results, as the way you chose to write them
> may favour some AV products, that simply are lucky their specific
> generic/heuristic detection is better suited to detect new malware
> created this way. 

And isn't that the situation AV finds itself in with new malware, all 
the time?  So, isn't it "fair" if I do the same to it?

                                        BB
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