AMTSO: Reviewing the Reviews

MarkKennedy — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 23:16:54 GMT

In January of this year, Symantec became a founding member of the Anti-Malware Testing Standards Organization (AMTSO). Symantec and about 40 of the leading academics, reviewers, testers and vendors in the security industry joined forces to form the organization dedicated to helping improve the objectivity, quality and relevance of anti-malware technology testing. Since then, the first two official documents for the AMTSO have been adopted and published. The next step will be to put these principles into practice. We’re now working on a process to Review the Reviews - a potentially very controversial thing to do. Read on to learn my personal views on how I think this process should be conducted.

Re: AMTSO: Reviewing the Reviews

cmiller53 — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 22:40:37 GMT

Just wanted to get some info on how to respond to the report that says i have 36 problems. I have quarantined them, the log says they are quarantined but when i run my scan it comes back with 36 infected files. Do i have to do anything more to remove them from my computer or just accept that this virus is out of harms way? I used to have parallels with MS but have since removed that software. The virus says it has infected exe files. I have a mac so i don't know what this means. Help?

Re: AMTSO: Reviewing the Reviews

mdturner — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 05:32:37 GMT

Hi cmiller53

Post your issue to the mac forum and someone should pick it up there.

Thanks