RE: Consumer Reports Slammed for Creating 'Test' Viruses

[Drsolly <drsollyp () drsolly com>]

On Thu, 17 Aug 2006 Blanchard_Michael () emc com wrote:

>  Great!  Just what we friggin need.... 5500 MORE virus variants....  "controlled lab environment" my shiney white 
> ass....  Arrrggghhhh!!!
>
>  WTF are they thinking?  I think they must have taken their stupid pills that morning....
 
I'll say it again - people with no expertise in the antivirus field aren't 
necessarily stupid. They could be quite bright, with their expertise in 
some other field, such as farming, or calligraphy. I know that when I 
first started growing vegetables, I did some things that were, with 
hindsight, not a good idea (for example, planting onions not in rows but 
in an area-filling pattern). But that didn't make me stupid, and after a 
few years, I learned enough about the craft to be able to grow great 
crops.

If the people who did this poor review keep trying for a few years, and 
get good advice from the literature (like I did with onions), they'll 
improve, and might eventually produce a useful report. Many other 
magazines have done extremely poor product tests, even when they have 
words like "virus" or "security" in their titles.

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