As the threat landscape has changed, our protection and repair technologies have evolved and multiplied to protect against many new threat vectors.  As a result, there is a need for a broader and more comprehensive set of tests, often called “whole product” or “real-world” tests, to measure this increased coverage and emulate the consumer experience.  Additionally Symantec has also strongly supports remediation or “clean-up” tests where a computer is infected then a security product is tested to see how well it can remove the infection from the a computer.