AV Tests

Well, it is time to stick a fork in this one.

It is done.

Thanks "all" for whatever you contributed.

Nice!

 

Someone asked me why I closed this thread at this point?

Well, for the same reason the bradtech threads, which involved the same kind of mostly pointless testing, were closed months ago. None of these threads have any great lasting value. Yes, they are kind of cute. A few nasty malware links selected out of nowhere, can look like great drama when tossed against a set of products, but, they aren't anything special.

We let this thread go longer than we did the bradtech thread, which people pointed out to us. But, it's really time now to put a stop to this and the similar related threads. This includes AlexDBR's "Video AV test" thread, as well.

These kind of "tests" are basically pointless. I am sorry to say it, but, there is no great value to what these have done here.

I know this is not a popular position to take. I'm sure many of those who think "everyone should be told they are right" regardless of what they are write online, will think I am wrong for taking this position. But, we let these go on long enough. It's time to stop this. These endless tests without valid testing criteria have got to stop. I don't care if the people running them state that "these aren't professional tests" but they still want to be taken seriously. No. That won't do. You can't have it both ways.

Not everyone is meant to be a published tester. Not every test is worth the pixels it takes to display them online. Not every forum, such as this one, is going to let people publish their tests endlessly, day after day, week after week, without saying "enough is enough". You had your published time - at our expense - now you are done.

If you think you have some great info to share with the masses, then get your own hosting contract and publish your "tests" at your own expense, but, don't link to them from here in order to give yourself a big click-thru boost at our expense.