originally Posted by EMSISOFT



Wrong. Emsisoft does not own parts of Tall Emu, Emsisoft has bought the intellectual property of the Online Armor product from Tall Emu.

Well, that little difference is reason for all the conflict we've got. Matousec denies the fact that Tall Emu no longer owns Online Armor and is still asking for money for it.

David Matousek thinks that "Online Armor" owes him money and therefore Emsisoft has to pay for it now. Which is quite nonsense because a product can't owe anybody money, only the maker of the product can. That's like me saying your toothbrush owes me $10...

I've clearly stated that Emsisoft will not continue to finance that crazy testing system and as a result, Online Armor was delisted, even if the earlier tests have been paid by Tall Emu correctly.

Currently, the vendor paying the biggest money stays on top of the ranking. Why? Every re-test costs money and the tests of all products are not performed at the same time. So it ends up in a battle of vendors paying for retests everytime a new test component is added. If you don't pay again, your product is ranked lower because there's another one paying to get the top score. Sorry, I can't support that. In my opinion that's a rip-off.

http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showpost.ph...63&postcount=30

Tests ARE important for marketing. That's the main reason for vendors to support testing organizations. Each vendors needs those "best in test" stamps on the products to convince customers to buy.

Online Armor was always a top ranked product on the Matousec website, so there was no reason to not-use the test results for marketing. And in early days, the Matousec tests seemed to have a minimum of quality. Except the complete failure to include a behavior blocker product like Mamutu in the firewall tests.

However, Matousec tests are no longer valuable for users now and therefore we'll remove all references to them from our websites. The mentioned banner has already gone. Thanks for letting me know.

http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showpost.ph...29&postcount=39