RE: how broken are antivirus products?

I would *strongly* suggest that you defer to the experts in the field. As it is, you are making many assumptions about how to test and even if your samples are "live".

This is hashed over repeatedly amongst AV professionals, and the only true tests are those done by laboratories with proven "live" samples under controlled conditions. If you really want to know how antivir, sophos, mcafee etc. do in tests, go to:

http://www.av-test.org/index.php3?lang=enhttp://www.uta.fi/laitokset/virus/http://agn-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/vtc/naveng.htm

Those are the experts.

Don't write your book without doing this, or you will be roundly criticized.

Paul Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu)
TCS Department Coordinator
The University of Texas at Dallas
AVIEN Founding Member
http://www.utdallas.edu/~pauls/

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jose Nazario [mailto:jose@monkey.org]
> Sent: Saturday, November 16, 2002 1:36 PM
> To: focus-virus@securityfocus.com
> Subject: how broken are antivirus products?
>
> i'm not the world's biggest fan of antivirus products, but i
Received on Mon Nov 18 18:41:18 2002