AB
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join:2006-04-04
Leesburg, VA
| reply to Cudni
Re: Our unique antivirus testing: How we did it
Quoted from Consumer Reports article:
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To be safe from online infection, you need protection from current viruses, which number 100,000 . . (sic) . .
To pit the software against novel threats not identified on signature lists, we created 5,500 new virus variants . . .
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Cute. Very nice.
In one fell swoop, they have increased the known virus count by 5.5%. That's an excellent day's work there, Dr. Consumerstein.
And you can practically write it in stone that some of these will soon be finding their way OUT of the lab.
If the disease doesn't kill you, the cure will.
Potential quote from a Consumer Reports spokesperson in a couple of months: "Whoops! Sorry!" |
