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Software vendors are meeting later this week to discuss how to improve anti-virus product tests, now often regarded as flawed or incomplete.

The aim of the Anti-Malware Testing Standards Organisation (AMTSO) is to create a more consistent framework and guidelines for how security software is evaluated by testing organisations and technology magazines. AMTSO is meeting Thursday and Friday in Oxford, England.

AMTSO, formed in February, is composed of private companies, government representatives and others with interests in security software. Representatives of security companies and the testing organisation AV-Test.org discussed issues facing the industry and the upcoming meeting at the RSA conference in London on Tuesday.

AMTSO represents an interesting union since many of its companies compete with one another. But security companies are increasingly realising that all of them lose when an incomplete or questionable test comparing their products is published by a testing organisation.

Further, the raft of security software tests and differing frameworks under which they're conducted makes it confusing for people trying to identify the best product, the panellists said.

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