Re: Anti-Virus Testing and Consumer Reports

[Drsolly <drsollyp () drsolly com>]

On Wed, 30 Aug 2006, Nick FitzGerald wrote:

> Drsolly wrote:
>
> > I'm really surprised that neither Paul nor David knew that this repository 
> > already exists, and is shared by the AV vendors, on a vetted basis.
>
> Really?
>
> You're surprised that really, really bright and clearly intelligent 
> folk who know virtually nothing about what they're now talking about 
> might miss something so fundamental?
>
> Wow -- and I thought you were one of the smart cookies in all this...

Thanks for the almost-compliment, maybe.
 
>    [Anti-virus companies] have to understand that if they hoard [new
>    malware samples], then they're going to be lonesome.

We understood that 15 years ago - that's why we set up sample sharing. I
regularly attended sessions when everyone present uploaded all their
samples to a server on a specially-set-up-for-the-occasion LAN, then
everyone downloaded everything that was uploaded.


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