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<blockquote data-quote="cruelsister" data-source="post: 1102313" data-attributes="member: 7463">My recent videos are about testing a specific product against a specific malicious mechanism of action. As it being hard to conclude the Real Worldliness of such a test, a better example would be my last video on Worms:In that one the malware employed that were ignored by Zone Alarm were neither new in Age nor in Mechanism (and are definitely in the wild), and for all I know may have actually been included in the 1000&#039;s of samples used in the pro tests.Also, whether or not something like SmartScreen would have detected it if they were downloaded is inconsequential as when testing a specific product defenses one must NOT include any additional type of malware defense that are extraneous to the product being tested- in other words if a SmartScreen popup did occur, the proper procedure would be to override the warming and run the file anyway (as we are testing a specific product and NOT a specific product with an assist from Microsoft). Finally it had been written by another (not you) on MT that running a file from the Desktop folder is somehow invalid. This is obviously silly as a file must be run from somewhere- from the Download folder (in the case of the file being downloaded), from within a folder from whatever Email client is used for email attachments, or from whatever folder torrented files are stored, etc.So although such a video may not be worth the time to watch (and as I normally get only about 100 views this seems to be the case), stating that they are not in any way Real World as they are not as inclusive as a pro test has questionable validity.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="cruelsister, post: 1102313, member: 7463"] My recent videos are about testing a specific product against a specific malicious mechanism of action. As it being hard to conclude the Real Worldliness of such a test, a better example would be my last video on Worms: In that one the malware employed that were ignored by Zone Alarm were neither new in Age nor in Mechanism (and are definitely in the wild), and for all I know may have actually been included in the 1000's of samples used in the pro tests. Also, whether or not something like SmartScreen would have detected it if they were downloaded is inconsequential as when testing a specific product defenses one must NOT include any additional type of malware defense that are extraneous to the product being tested- in other words if a SmartScreen popup did occur, the proper procedure would be to override the warming and run the file anyway (as we are testing a specific product and NOT a specific product with an assist from Microsoft). Finally it had been written by another (not you) on MT that running a file from the Desktop folder is somehow invalid. This is obviously silly as a file must be run from somewhere- from the Download folder (in the case of the file being downloaded), from within a folder from whatever Email client is used for email attachments, or from whatever folder torrented files are stored, etc. So although such a video may not be worth the time to watch (and as I normally get only about 100 views this seems to be the case), stating that they are not in any way Real World as they are not as inclusive as a pro test has questionable validity. [/QUOTE]

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