From: Randall Parker 

Geo wrote:

> Hey Randall, long time no see..

I live in the blogosphere. But sometimes click thru to view Phil Payne's continued
conquest of barktopus and the death of the god-and-gov and linuxhelp sections.

> I was chatting with a lady from AV-Test.org a few weeks ago when she did an
> article about antivirus programs and how they compared. When I asked her why
> she only tested certain functions none of which included ability to remove a
> virus she said that they didn't have time.

It would be really hard to install hundreds of viruses successively and see if the
tools each can remove them. Think about it. Install OS, install 1 virus, run virus
remover. See if it worked. Probably then start from scratch with new OS image so that
previous stuff doesn't influence result. Then do the steps again. Got do that for 10
anti-virus programs for hundreds or thousands of viruses.

> I pointed out that most people don't buy AV (or download free versions)
> until they are infected so it was probably a pretty important feature and
> she agreed but said they didn't have time to do a proper comparison of all
> the features.

True enough.

>
> I kinda got the feeling they were more interested in making money by having
> test results ready by a magazine deadline than testing and publishing proper
> results.

Well of course.

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