RE: Consumer Reports Slammed for Creating 'Test' Viruses

[Drsolly <drsollyp () drsolly com>]

On Sat, 19 Aug 2006, David Harley wrote:

> > I've noticed a lot of bad feeling against the AV companies. 
>
> Yep. I've not been totally uncritical of the industry ;-) but
> I think there's a very serious gap between what it's really
> like and how it's perceived. Can't do right for doing wrong. :(
 
Hey, you're right to be critical. But some of the criticisms I've seen, 
are totally unfair:

 - They actually write the viruses
 - They hype up the problem
 - They deliberately rely on an update-needing technology
 - They've had 20 years to solve the problem, and they haven't yet
 - They should employ virus authors because virus authors are all geniuses


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