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<blockquote data-quote="Burrito" data-source="post: 823858" data-attributes="member: 72439">Yeah, that&#039;s really too bad.In the AV testing business, it&#039;s been common practice for a long time that a vendor can pay to hide test results.And maybe it&#039;s even worse now for the testers... maybe they are afraid enough of losing business that the AVs can just threaten to pull their products from the tests of a lab if bad results are published.&nbsp;&nbsp; Just a guess... I dunno.The AV testing organization Dennis Labs&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href="http://Link%20to%20Dennis%20Labs" target="_blank">dennistechnologylabs.com/external/</a>&nbsp; demonstrated that there is not an excess of business in the testing industry.&nbsp; They went out-of-business.&nbsp;&nbsp; And Dennis did some good work.&nbsp; What is really needed is some third party to pay for testing -- where all results are published.&nbsp;&nbsp; But Fabian (Emsisoft) has alluded to the cost of testing for vendors.... it&#039;s really expensive.&nbsp;&nbsp; So a computer magazine probably would not sponsor a test at that cost.&nbsp;&nbsp; And therein lies the problem..I propose that MT allows a little advertising to pay for tests.... real tests.... everything gets published.&nbsp;&nbsp; That is all.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Burrito, post: 823858, member: 72439"] Yeah, that's really too bad. In the AV testing business, it's been common practice for a long time that a vendor can pay to hide test results. And maybe it's even worse now for the testers... maybe they are afraid enough of losing business that the AVs can just threaten to pull their products from the tests of a lab if bad results are published. Just a guess... I dunno. The AV testing organization Dennis Labs [URL='http://Link%20to%20Dennis%20Labs']dennistechnologylabs.com/external/[/URL] demonstrated that there is not an excess of business in the testing industry. They went out-of-business. And Dennis did some good work. What is really needed is some third party to pay for testing -- where all results are published. But Fabian (Emsisoft) has alluded to the cost of testing for vendors.... it's really expensive. So a computer magazine probably would not sponsor a test at that cost. And therein lies the problem.. I propose that MT allows a little advertising to pay for tests.... real tests.... everything gets published. That is all. [/QUOTE]

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