antivirus product testing changing.......but....

[Melih]

http://www.readwriteweb.com/enterprise/2010/06/antivirus-product-testing-changing.php

Its not the Antivirus testing, but the Antivirus product itself must change!

The way AV vendors market these products must also change. Making people think that they will be protected only if they paid $$ to the AV vendors is unethical imo.

Legacy AntiVirus products do not and cannot prevent infection from unknown files. And guess what, thats how a good chunk of people get infected!

Unless you can prevent the “unknown” files from executing/running in your computer, you dont’ have a way to prevent infections! Watch this video to learn about this…

Melih

[Tech]

@Melih post:1

The way AV vendors market these products must also change. Making people think that they will be protected only if they paid $$ to the AV vendors is unethical imo.

They’re doing their job, selling their product.
In fact, the freeware solutions - antimalware and suites - can (and in fact do) do much better than the paid ones.

[Melih]

@Tech post:2

They’re doing their job, selling their product.
In fact, the freeware solutions - antimalware and suites - can (and in fact do) do much better than the paid ones.

To sell must you mislead?

[languy99]

isn’t that what sales are anyway, tell people only the good things while hiding the bad. While hoping they never find out about the bad.

[Tech]

@Melih post:3

To sell must you mislead?

For sure I’m not in their side…

[Melih]

@languy99 post:4

isn’t that what sales are anyway, tell people only the good things while hiding the bad. While hoping they never find out about the bad.

Hiding is one thing…saying something that the product doesn’t do is another…

Melih