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RE: Consumer Reports AV and their 5,500 new variants

from [Paul Schmehl] Network Security [Permanent Link]
Subject: RE: Consumer Reports AV and their 5,500 new variants
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2006 09:20:31 -0500
--On Wednesday, September 06, 2006 01:01:39 -0700 Bill Stout <bill.stout@greenborder.com> wrote: 

Indeed, the consensus throughout the antivirus development and testing
community is that creating a new virus or variant for product testing
would be very bad - and totally unnecessary. To do so would undoubtedly
raise questions about their ethics."

Maybe opinions have changed on creating viruses in a closed test lab,
and it's no longer unethical.

I can assure you that within the AVIEN community nothing has changed. We are completely oppposed to the creation of viruses in a lab, for many reasons, all of which we have publicly articulated.

Paul Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu)
Adjunct Information Security Officer
The University of Texas at Dallas
http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/

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