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Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/kgAZN2ilaTE/tavis-ormandy-criticizes-meaningless-antivirus-excellence-awards
Tavis Ormandy Criticizes Meaningless Antivirus Excellence Awards
An anonymous reader writes: A Google security expert (Tavis Ormandy) has become annoyed with antivirus products receiving awards a week after he finds huge security holes in their software. He's talking about Comodo who received an "excellence" award from Verizon, after the researcher discovered 4 security issues in the past four months, and is in the process of submitting a fifth. His criticism of Comodo and Verizon's silly awards is also validated by the fact that during the past year, he discovered security flaws in numerous antivirus and security software such as Avast, Malwarebytes, Trend Micro, AVG, FireEye, Kaspersky, and ESET.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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