No es agradable escribir esto, pero ocurre una y otra vez. Otro falso positivo de un competidor hacia uno de nuestros productors.

Esta vez afecta a nuestra sorpresa para el lanzamiento de nuestra versión 1.4. Durante estos meses, nuestros desarrolladores han preparado Spybot-s&D para la siguiente plataforma que actualmente está en peligro. Spybot-S&D para teléfonos móbiles Symbian is sitting here en nuestro disco duro, y paneábamos lanzarlo como RC junto con los lanzamientos de la versión 1.4, y - si todo va bien - al final junto con la versión de Spybot-S&D 1.4 para Windows.

El lanzamiento de este paquete sorpresa está paralizado por su detección como virus. Hace ya tiempo que parece ser una muy útil Since it seems a useful communication has started today, we hope for a soon fix, and that the future will bring less news of this kind.

Which leads me back to the old topic. The press is reporting more and more about spyware, which is good, since people need to be informed about it. Many news articles also contain overviews over the detection rates of anti-spyware, which is good as well. But most anti-spyware companies, including many reputated ones, seem to entangle themselves in a fight for the best detection rate at the expense of quality. These days, it seems to be better to misflag some legit software, just to raise the rate.
With a dozen false positives about Spybot-S&D alone, I wonder what the real false positive rate about non-security related software would be? Security-related software should be on the prerelease test list of any anti-spyware maker and gets flagged anyway...

Our call to the press: When writing reviews and comparisons of anti-spyware software, start to care about quality in addition to quantity!

Our call to our competitors: Stop this insanity of fighting for the best rate where it goes at the expense of quality, thus at the expense of the customer!

Our call to our users: We probably could double our output if we would reduce our testing to a minimum, and we want to know what our users would prefer. Do you want a high output rate at the expense of more likely false positives, or do you want quality output, even it's less? Please mail us your opinion to qs-detectionrate@safer-networking.org!