Consumer Reports, the independent product
review and rating publication, was slammed Friday for using what
security experts called "mind-boggling" and "useless" tests of
anti-spyware software in its current on-the-stand issue.
"This is beyond anything I've ever seen," said Alex Eckelberry,
chief executive of Sunbelt Software, a Clearwater, Fla. security
company. "They ran a test that is not a full test of anti-spyware
software capability. Consumer Reports
scanned for and removed functionality that isn't even real. When I
heard what they did, I went 'huh? They did what?' This is just
mind-boggling."
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