RE: Consumer Reports Slammed for Creating 'Test' Viruses

[Larry Seltzer <Larry () larryseltzer com>]

> > People think they write the viruses, people think they deliberately
hype the problem, people think that AV products should be made so they
don't need updates. 

I first heard this rumour back in 1989. Vendors back then were
explicitly competing based on the number of viruses they protected
against, and there were rumors of shady consultants who did "black ops"
for the vendors. I'm sure Dr. Solly knows all about this. 

The rumors had a lot more logic to them back then than they do now.
What's the competitive value of protecting against the marginal Bagle
variant?

Larry Seltzer
eWEEK.com Security Center Editor
http://security.eweek.com/
http://blog.eweek.com/blogs/larry%5Fseltzer/
Contributing Editor, PC Magazine
larryseltzer () ziffdavis com 

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