wheee, maybe my fido access won't go wonky on me for the next little
while and i'll actually be able to engage in a conversation...
 -=> Mocking Luther Kolb to Rod Fewster <=-
   
 rf> At least the goalpoasts are stationary.  This gives other
 rf> teams the
 rf> chance to play the same way ... but IMO it would be a Bad
 rf> Thing if AVP
 rf> sacrificed overall detection just to get Wild List
 rf> certification.
 LK> Wouldn't the smart thing be for AVP's investigative team to put extra
 LK> effort into getting the Wild List cert AND keeping up the overall
 LK> detection ? 
certainly it would... and eugene (to the best of my knowledge) is a caro
member, and all caro members trust each other (otherwise they couldn't
get into caro) so i'm not sure why eugene doesn't have hands on access
to those wildlist viruses...
 rf> Yeah ... I've seen it.  You don't really want me to turn
 rf> this echo into
 rf> an a.c.v clone, do you ?
 LK> SHIT NO!
 
agreed.... (i'm starting to get a few whiffs of that barnyard smell you
were talking about)
 LK> I wholeheartedly agree, but I'll go even further.  If you choose your
 LK> scanner even based on the Wild List Test, you're fucked in the head! 
 LK> For instance, ESafe Protect detects 99.8% of the Wild List, so you
 LK> would assume from this figure that it's one of the world's best
 LK> scanners, but it shows up as weak as piss in the real world, detecting
 LK> only 52% of the Secure Computing full collection. 
 LK> The Wild List Test started life as a reputable guideline, but it has
 LK> been massaged with snake oil by "big in hype" and "small in detection"
 LK> anti-virus companies for so long that it has lost all its credibility. 
i think the wildlist is just being misused/misinterpretted... it *is*
significant... a scanner that has a low wildlist detection rate is
worthless regardless of it's overall detection rate, but that doesn't
make a scanner with a high wildlist detection rate a good product in and
of itself...
i think wildlist reporting should be less qualitative so as to not
mistake it's significance as being anything like the significance of an
overall detection rate... something like
"perfect/high/mediocre/low/none"...
but since when does any of the powers that be listen to what *i*
think...
... "I hate you. Now feed me."
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