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Antivirus ratings firms AV‐Comparatives, AV-Test, and Virus Bulletin have stripped another company of its rankings for trying to game their tests. This time the culprit was Chinese giant Tencent, which is accused of compromising its own security systems for the sake of speed credits in testing. "After in-depth investigations …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
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    is anyone surprised?

    I'm not.

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  2. Crazy Operations Guy

    This is what happens when people care too much about benchmarks

    The only thing benchmarks are good for is knowing how fast something can run a benchmark...

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    1. Callam McMillan
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      Re: This is what happens when people care too much about benchmarks

      Thats the point, the benchmarks are good for nothing if they've been fudged to produce ultimately meaningless numbers.

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  3. Bob Dole (tm)
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    How long..

    How long until we see a couple new AV testing companies show up that rates those chinese products as the top in the field?

    Probably named something like:

    - AV‐Comparativies

    - AV-Testing

    - Virus Bulletins

    Then someone will have to tell us to look for the hologram on the real websites so we know it's not fake.

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