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Consumer Reports Slammed for Creating 'Test' Viruses
From: "Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 21:07:59 GMT
Via Techworld (UK). [snip] A consumer magazine has been condemned for possibly adding to the virus problem by creating a series of "test" viruses just to review anti-virus scanners. In an act that has long been considered technical taboo, US-based consumer affairs organisation, ConsumerReports.org, decided to generate 5,500 "test" viruses to run, under lab conditions, against 12 leading anti-virus software products. The organisations own website describes the methodology used: "To pit the software against novel threats not identified on signature lists, we created 5,500 new virus variants derived from six categories of known viruses, the kind youd most likely encounter in real life." The organisation said it had enlisted the help of Independent Security Evaluators (ISE), an external consultancy, to help design the tests and ensure they matched real-world conditions. [snip] More: http://www.techworld.com/news/index.cfm?NewsID=6658 - ferg -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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- Consumer Reports Slammed for Creating 'Test' Viruses Fergie (Aug 16)
- Re: Consumer Reports Slammed for Creating 'Test' Viruses Michal Zalewski (Aug 16)
- Re: Consumer Reports Slammed for Creating 'Test' Viruses Valdis . Kletnieks (Aug 17)
- RE: Consumer Reports Slammed for Creating 'Test' Viruses Blanchard_Michael (Aug 17)
- Re: Consumer Reports Slammed for Creating 'Test' Viruses Dude VanWinkle (Aug 17)
- RE: Consumer Reports Slammed for Creating 'Test' Viruses Drsolly (Aug 17)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- RE: Consumer Reports Slammed for Creating 'Test' Viruses Fergie (Aug 16)
- RE: Consumer Reports Slammed for Creating 'Test' Viruses Peter Kosinar (Aug 16)
- RE: Consumer Reports Slammed for Creating 'Test' Viruses Nick FitzGerald (Aug 16)
- RE: Consumer Reports Slammed for Creating 'Test' Viruses Peter Kosinar (Aug 16)
- Re: Consumer Reports Slammed for Creating 'Test' Viruses Fergie (Aug 16)
- Re: Consumer Reports Slammed for Creating 'Test' Viruses Michal Zalewski (Aug 16)
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- Re: Consumer Reports Slammed for Creating 'Test' Viruses Michal Zalewski (Aug 16)