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Re: Consumer Reports Slammed for Creating 'Test' Viruses


From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 12:19:57 -0400

On Thu, 17 Aug 2006 12:06:25 EDT, Blanchard_Michael () emc com said:
 
None of their new viruses got out AFAIK, but it happens under the most
controlled circumstances.  In my eyes there is never a need to create new
viruses for testing purposes...

So you're an A/V package author/developer.  How do you test your software's
ability to deal with variant versions of stuff before you put out a pattern
for it?

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