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Offline Lisandro

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Re: The truth about av comparatives? How do they get paid?
« Reply #30 on: November 29, 2011, 11:11:39 AM »
That guy sure got burned.
Who is that guy?
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Re: The truth about av comparatives? How do they get paid?
« Reply #31 on: November 29, 2011, 03:28:44 PM »
Spin-Doctor's advice to any would-be Saviour of the World

See yourself as the White Knight, the instigator of a new paradigm of PC protection?
Happy to let such a cult of personal adulation persist and grow?
Then try to always have someone in your sights to paint as the Black Knight.

e.g.
Symantec
MRG
Bob3160
AVC


 
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Re: The truth about av comparatives? How do they get paid?
« Reply #32 on: November 29, 2011, 04:44:35 PM »
Spin-Doctor's advice to any would-be Saviour of the World

See yourself as the White Knight, the instigator of a new paradigm of PC protection?
Happy to let such a cult of personal adulation persist and grow?
Then try to always have someone in your sights to paint as the Black Knight.

e.g.
Symantec
MRG
Bob3160
AVC


 

I'd certainly like an explanation of your statement.  ??? ??? ??? ???
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Re: The truth about av comparatives? How do they get paid?
« Reply #33 on: November 29, 2011, 05:10:56 PM »
Bob,

He is talking about Melih, and you were one of his " targets/victems " as well ;)

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Re: The truth about av comparatives? How do they get paid?
« Reply #34 on: November 29, 2011, 05:29:08 PM »
Spin-Doctor's advice to any would-be Saviour of the World

See yourself as the White Knight, the instigator of a new paradigm of PC protection?
Happy to let such a cult of personal adulation persist and grow?
Then try to always have someone in your sights to paint as the Black Knight.

e.g.
Symantec
MRG
Bob3160
AVC


 

I'd certainly like an explanation of your statement.  ??? ??? ??? ???

Bob, you gotta watch The Dark Knight. You will get what he means. The thing about being a White Knight or a Dark Knight. The movie is good though :)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0468569/

It is kinda EPIC  :)

A bit off topic so  no need to say that I am :D
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Re: The truth about av comparatives? How do they get paid?
« Reply #35 on: November 29, 2011, 05:30:32 PM »
Bob,

He is talking about Melih, and you were one of his " targets/victems " as well ;)

Greetz, Red.
Understood. Not a victim but certainly a target. I guess the truth hurts.  ;D
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Re: The truth about av comparatives? How do they get paid?
« Reply #36 on: November 29, 2011, 08:27:51 PM »
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Re: The truth about av comparatives? How do they get paid?
« Reply #37 on: November 29, 2011, 09:38:52 PM »
Personally, I've never paid much attention to AV-Comparatives. They remind me of J.D. Powers, which in my opinion, is the poster child, of skewing data, to fit whatever results they want.
I think Andreas (IBK) is running a respectable organization and a lot of users were guided by his tests that are conducted seriously.
The only point was that we thought no company pays nothing. In fact, all pay the same.
If the results are not influenced by the payment, and there is no evidence at all of this, we can trust in av-comparatives tests.
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Re: The truth about av comparatives? How do they get paid?
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Re: The truth about av comparatives? How do they get paid?
« Reply #39 on: November 29, 2011, 11:12:01 PM »
So, I'll go with your opinion, and will remove my original comments.
Well... They can be there, no problems, no need to remove them.
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Re: The truth about av comparatives? How do they get paid?
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Re: The truth about av comparatives? How do they get paid?
« Reply #41 on: November 30, 2011, 10:22:36 AM »
I'd certainly like an explanation of your statement.  ??? ??? ??? ???

Hi Bob. No cause for alarm on your part.

I hope you found the interpretations of my post given by others here to be helpful.
(I wasn't thinking of the movie 'The Dark Knight', more like a hypothetical chapter of Machiavelli's 'The Prince'.)

In any conflict, important questions will be asked of, and revelations will be made by, each party. Each party must also honestly examine their own behaviour.
In a case where one party has a history of lambasting opponents while simultaneously exalting themselves, it makes it just that much harder to sympathise with them.
There is a way that seems right to a man,
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Re: The truth about av comparatives? How do they get paid?
« Reply #42 on: November 30, 2011, 02:28:14 PM »
@Vladimyr,
Not a problem. It was my error for misunderstanding your post.
Sometimes when one acts in haste, he/she sooner or later finds out
that their actions where a waste.  ;D ;D
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