Seems this mob created over 5,000 new virii to test a dozen AV's heuristics.
As if there aren't enough around already.
Haven't seen the results as I can't be bothered registering.
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Finding the standouts. Our next round of tests helped us identify superior antivirus software by measuring how well each of the products identified new viruses even before their signatures had been downloaded. The antivirus programs did this by using a technique known as heuristics, in which they seek out behaviors rather than signatures.
To pit the software against novel threats not identified on signature lists, we created 5,500 new virus variants derived from six categories of known viruses, the kind you?d most likely encounter in real life.
That done, we unleashed the new viruses in our labs to see how well the products detected them while scanning. Then we infected our lab computer with each of 185 of them to see whether the products could better detect viruses that were actively executing, based on their behavior.
Seems some AV companies are none too happy!