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Re: Consumer Reports Slammed for Creating 'Test' Viruses
From: "Dude VanWinkle" <dudevanwinkle () gmail com>
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 13:02:43 -0400
On 8/17/06, Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu <Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu> wrote:
On Thu, 17 Aug 2006 12:06:25 EDT, Blanchard_Michael () emc com said: > > None of their new viruses got out AFAIK, but it happens under the most > controlled circumstances. In my eyes there is never a need to create new > viruses for testing purposes... So you're an A/V package author/developer. How do you test your software's ability to deal with variant versions of stuff before you put out a pattern for it?
Testing heuristics is different than the signitures. It should be as simple as running a scan on malware without the help of virus signitures. Right? You arent going to be releasing new heuristics with anywhere the frequency of your virus signiture updates. BTW, JIC you missed this method: (from fergs link to the sunbelt blog) There is a more scientific way of measuring real proactive detection of AV products on future malware - it is called "proactive testing" or "retrospective testing". The idea is to measure, say, 3-month old AV product against real field viruses that appeared within these last 3 months. The discussion of the methodology of such tests can be found here and some real test results with common AV products are on the AV-comparatives.org site. _______________________________________________ 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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- Re: Consumer Reports Slammed for Creating 'Test' Viruses, (continued)
- Re: Consumer Reports Slammed for Creating 'Test' Viruses Dude VanWinkle (Aug 17)
- RE: Consumer Reports Slammed for Creating 'Test' Viruses Drsolly (Aug 17)
- 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)
- RE: Consumer Reports Slammed for Creating 'Test' Viruses Blanchard_Michael (Aug 17)
- RE: Consumer Reports Slammed for Creating 'Test' Viruses security curmudgeon (Aug 17)
- Re: Consumer Reports Slammed for Creating 'Test' Viruses Valdis . Kletnieks (Aug 17)
- Re: Consumer Reports Slammed for Creating 'Test' Viruses Dude VanWinkle (Aug 17)
- RE: Consumer Reports Slammed for Creating 'Test' Viruses Larry Seltzer (Aug 17)
- RE: Consumer Reports Slammed for Creating 'Test' Viruses David Harley (Aug 17)
- RE: Consumer Reports Slammed for Creating 'Test' Viruses Drsolly (Aug 17)
- Re: Consumer Reports Slammed for Creating 'Test' Viruses Drsolly (Aug 17)
- Re: Consumer Reports Slammed for Creating 'Test' Viruses Blue Boar (Aug 17)
- RE: Consumer Reports Slammed for Creating 'Test' Viruses Blanchard_Michael (Aug 17)
- Re: Consumer Reports Slammed for Creating 'Test' Viruses der Mouse (Aug 17)
- Re: Consumer Reports Slammed for Creating 'Test' Viruses Michal Zalewski (Aug 17)
- Re: Consumer Reports Slammed for Creating 'Test' Viruses Peter Kosinar (Aug 17)