This post is to detain users from dealing with Malwaretips.com website. I registered about 6 months ago after a friend of mine almost begged me. Almost instantly I noticed that something in this community is not as it should be - there are very knowledgeable and nice members, but they are a vast minority (drop in an ocean). Biastips.com would be a more accurate name for this website - various top members and website procedures seem to be all about spreading misinformation and bias. The whole forum is jam packed with "threat hunters" and "threat testers", but they have very little to no knowledge about malware whatsoever. There is a dedicated section that presumably should put all product to a test, but everything about it is wrong.
Samples are only scripts, which are mainly targeted attacks. There is no evidence that such samples are prevalent enough in the wild and are worth even analysing/adding to definitions. Targeted attacks are usually not carried out against home users and corporations use a lot more than just an antivirus.
Samples are not pre-analysed and testers are not aware of their behaviour, neither they've been acquitted to the various products' behaviour. Such testers are supposed to determine a solution's effectiveness.
Samples are repetative and only test one infection vector, but there are many other.
Products are inconsistently tested and no usable conclusions can be drawn.
Now going to the mods, they are absolutely the worst, most incompetent and not less biased than the rest of the community. Comments seem to be selectively approved/deleted and inappropriate behaviour seems to be tolerated from some selected members. They are rude, unprofessional (if this can be called a profession) and with poor language and communication skills.
All in all, this community is just a waste of time, no value. I have deleted my account there now and feel a lot better. Discussion can be found here...
https://www.reddit.com/r/antivirus/comments/lz9gze/beware_malwaretipscom/?utm_source=amp&utm_medium=&utm_content=post_body