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Virus Bulletin Spotlight article on AMTSO
What AMTSO has achieved so far, and what might lie ahead. David Harley, AMTSOlutely Fabulous, January 2010, Virus Bulletin. Copyright is held by Virus Bulletin Ltd, but is made available on this site for personal use free of charge by permission of Virus Bulletin.
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1 Presentations made at AV Testing Workshop 2007
Presentations made at the International Antivirus Testing Workshop 2007, held at Reykjavik, Iceland
2 AV-Test.org Archive of Conference Papers
AV.Test.org: Archive of conference papers
3 Pragmatic Anti-virus Testing
Joe Wells: "Pragmatic Anti-Virus Testing"
4 Real World Reviews: Current State
Sarah Gordon and Richard Ford: "Real World Anti-Virus Product Reviews And Evaluations - The Current State Of Affairs"
5 A Reader's Guide to Reviews
Dr. Alan Solomon: "A Reader's Guide to Reviews" (originally published in "Virus News International", and credited to Sarah Tanner)
6 Analysis and Maintenance of a Clean Virus Library
Vesselin Bontchev: "Analysis and Maintenance of a Clean Virus Library"
7 What is Wild?
Sarah Gordon: "What is Wild?"
8 Comparing the Comparatives
Igor Muttik: "Comparing the Comparatives"
9 Wildlist Archive of Papers
WildList Organization International: Archive of papers and links
10 Testing Methodology for Spyware Removal
Josh Harriman: Proposal for testing anti-spyware removal (Symantec)
11 Testing Methodology for Rootkit Removal
Josh Harriman: Proposed methodology for testing anti-rootkit removal technologies (Symantec)
12 A Single Metric for Evaluating Security Products
Igor Muttik: "A Single Metric for Evaluating Security Products" presented at the EICAR 2010 conference in Paris
13 Real Performance?
Ján Vrabec and David Harley: "Real Performance?" presented at the EICAR 2010 conference in Paris.
14. Bringing Testing into the Cloud
Anthony Arrott, Wei Yan, Geoff Grindrod & Jeffrey Wong, presented at the AVAR2009 conference in Kyoto.
15. Paradigm Shift - From Static To Realtime, A Progress Report
Matt Garrad, Paul Jones, Lysa Myers and Michael Parsons, presented at the EICAR 2010 Conference in Paris
Newest entries
16. Let telemetry be your guide, a proposal for security tests
Jimmy Kuo, blog on Technet, 16 July 2009
17. Update on Telemetry Usage in Tests, Part 1
Jimmy Kuo, blog on Technet, 15 June 2010
