RE: Consumer Reports Slammed for Creating 'Test' Viruses

[Drsolly <drsollyp () drsolly com>]

On Sat, 19 Aug 2006, Larry Seltzer wrote:

> > > 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.
 
Sales people will say anything that might help them sell.

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