Throwback Thursday: Anti-malware testing undercover

The testing of security products has been a hotly debated topic in the industry for at least the past two decades. It was, for instance, the topic of a

popular VB2017 paper

by

ESET

‘s David Harley and will be the main focus of next week’s AMTSO meeting in Beijing, which

Virus Bulletin

will attend.

Last year, at VB2016 another paper looked at various aspects of security testing. In it,

ESET

‘s Righard Zwienenberg and

Panda Security

‘s Luis Corrons looked at what kind of influence tests and vendors have on each other, as well as at the controversial subject of cheating a test.

For this week’s Throwback Thursday, we have published Righard and Luis’s paper (

HTML

and

PDF

) and also uploaded the video of their presentation to our

YouTube

channel.