RE: Consumer Reports Slammed for Creating 'Test' Viruses

[Larry Seltzer <Larry () larryseltzer com>]

> > This is the first time I've heard a rumour about shady consultants
who did "black ops" for the vendors. The rumours I've always heard are
much simpler "I bet the AV companies write a lot of these viruses, or
pay to have them written." 

I hope nobody got the idea I ever believed these rumors. At the time I
was at NSTL running contract testing projects, although I don't think I
was very involved in the anti-virus projects. IIRC, the rumors came
through sales people.

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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