Billions of users could be misled by inadequate malware testing

Today sees the official formation of the Anti-Malware Testing Standards Organization (AMTSO) which has come about following an industry wide concern about the lack of any real-world standards that apply to anti-malware solutions when it comes to testing. Why is this important? Because unless the testing methodologies used to evaluate anti-malware are doing an effective, and consistently so, job then the product reviews that end up in magazines and published on the web are going to be incomplete, inaccurate and sometimes simply misleading. This has become an increasing pressing problem to address as anti-malware solutions become ever increasingly complex themselves in order to best secure systems against the maturing malware threat.