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Can You Trust Anti-virus Rankings?

Slatterz writes "It seems no-one can agree on a universal set of tests for rating anti-virus software, with Eugene Kaspersky the latest to weigh-in on the topic, criticising the well-known Virus Bulletin 100. Kaspersky is one of several big anti-virus... ...full story at slashdot

from slashdot on Thu, Oct 23 2008

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