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

--On Wednesday, September 06, 2006 01:01:39 -0700 Bill Stout 
<[email protected]> 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 ([email protected])
Adjunct Information Security Officer
The University of Texas at Dallas
http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/