Cheating Chinese antivirus company Tencent to sue AV-Test.org

[vivid]

It's kind of common nowadays. It's not like those certifications matter anyway. Propaganda.

 

[MrXidus]

Incase someone missed it - Recommended read: http://www.amtso.org/PR20150506

Ultimately, ethics play a central role for both the testers and vendors. Unethical behavior cannot be tolerated and decisions need to be made about how to penalise those who have bypassed the rules of engagement in order to falsely achieve a better testing result.

Stripping dishonest vendors of previously earned testing certifications and awards is a viable approach. Going public when a vendor breaks the rules of engagement is also important: it sends a clear warning to other vendors about the importance of ethical behavior.

 

[jamescv7]

The case of these two companies, their products are still good so its reputation about the controversy will be steer in a matter time, certifications are just formality in order to recognize them and always many opportunity to come.

It serves a lesson where ethics serves the image and all of its achievements that reflects to them.

 

[Volnus]

To be perfectly honest, who cares. Both companies who cheated lowered their potential scores as was stated in the revelation. The antivirus still scores the highest in the industry (or close to it) and it does extremely well in personal testing.

 

[Piteko21]

those certifications are just propaganda like @vivid said.
Qihoo/ Tencent... has high detection rates and offer good level of protection for free.
many home user will use them, they don't care about this formalities.

avast sends faulty updates and continues with many users...

TRUST product -- trust in USA, they have NSA

and China have theirs spy services... Russia has too...

 

[Volnus]

I agree it seems that Americans are attempting to make Chinese software vendors seem evil or that they are spying on us. As if the NSA wasn't watching us. I mean in the grand scheme of things it doesn't matter, everyone is spying on you get over it lol.

Qihoo's anti-virus has over 1 billion users. Compared to that no one can compete, we have Avast who is trying to catch up but their products suck. After version 7.0 I have had no interest in their products because they have become bloated, and the user interface is poor. Their protection scores are not that great either, and they slow down system performance.

However, as you said people are still following them. The biggest issue that these Chinese technology companies are going to have in America is to get over the preconceived idea that if it's from China its bad. Meaning that they have 2 options.

Hire someone who has godlike PR skills lol. OR Dissociate the fact that they are a Chinese company.

 

[aztony]

The biggest issue that these Chinese technology companies are going to have in America is to get over the preconceived idea that if it's from China its bad.

The solution is rather simple, in my view. Stop cheating; Stop stealing the intellectual property of others; Stop exploiting the customers in their domestic market; and maybe people who distrust China's vendors, or country as a whole, might reform their perception.

 

[Blackhawk]

I agree it seems that Americans are attempting to make Chinese software vendors seem evil or that they are spying on us. As if the NSA wasn't watching us. I mean in the grand scheme of things it doesn't matter, everyone is spying on you get over it lol.

Qihoo's anti-virus has over 1 billion users. Compared to that no one can compete, we have Avast who is trying to catch up but their products suck. After version 7.0 I have had no interest in their products because they have become bloated, and the user interface is poor. Their protection scores are not that great either, and they slow down system performance.

However, as you said people are still following them. The biggest issue that these Chinese technology companies are going to have in America is to get over the preconceived idea that if it's from China its bad. Meaning that they have 2 options.

Hire someone who has godlike PR skills lol. OR Dissociate the fact that they are a Chinese company.

Americans? I don't think so. AV Test is German. I won't even deal with the rest of your baloney, it's not worth it, been there, done that.