I'm surprised at the silence on the lists. Only news articles mention
the controversy caused by the creation of 5,500 new virus variants by
Consumer Reports under the guidance of ISE and Dr. Avi Rubin. I've seen
no comments by Avi, and Consumer Reports declined to comment.

One more article applauding Consumer Reports:

"Whether they create their own viruses or use existing ones they need to
be careful in the handling of those viruses. There's no ethical slippery
slope here, there's just an attempt to test products aggressively, and
that's something to applaud." -
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2005814,00.asp?

Bill Stout

-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Stout [mailto:bill.stout (at) greenborder (dot) com [email concealed]]
Sent: Monday, August 21, 2006 8:49 PM
To: focus-virus (at) securityfocus (dot) com [email concealed]
Subject: Consumer Reports AV and their 5,500 new variants

Now that consumer reports has generated 5,500 new virus variants, what's
the repercussion? Will anything at all happen to CR, other than they
bump up their magazine sales?

I understand some companies may be interested in contacting CR to get
the test samples. Even Paller at SANs says AV companies should thank
CR.

http://www.sans.org/newsletters/newsbites/newsbites.php?vol=8&issue=65&r

ss=Y#sID320
"[Editor's Note (Paller): This controversy is especially problematic for
the leading AV companies because they have traditionally not done well
in finding and blocking new viruses quickly. But for goodness sakes, if
they don't do well at finding and blocking new viruses, why ae we buying
them? They should stop complaining and instead thank Jeff Fox and the
editors at Consumer Reports for helping to do important product
improvement research for them. ]"

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&

articleId=9002499&source=rss_topic17

http://cbs4boston.com/consumer/local_story_226152410.html

________
Bill Stout
GreenBorder, Director of Information Technology
bill.stout (at) greenborder (dot) com [email concealed] | office 650.625.0601 x341 | cell
408.966.9804

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