Spybot, adaware, and MalWare bytes. I hadn't even thought of them; I was all fixated on Ookla... and why it wouldn't work.
I will query those folks. Cheers, - jra On February 18, 2014 3:56:19 PM EST, Robert Drake <rdr...@direcpath.com> wrote: > >On 2/18/2014 2:19 PM, James Milko wrote: >> Is using data from a self-selected group even meaningful when >> extrapolated? It's been a while since Stats in college, and it's >very >> likely the guys from MIT know more than I do, but one of the big >things >> they pushed was random sampling. >> >> JM >> >> >Isn't it probable that people who know enough to download the spoofer >projects program and run it might also be in position to fix things >when >it's broken, or they may just be testing their own networks which >they've already secured, just to verify they got it right. > >I may put it on my laptop and start testing random places like >Starbucks, my moms house, conventions and other things, but if I'm >running it from my home machine it's just to get the gold "I did this" >star. > >So yeah, data from the project is probably meaningless unless someone >uses it as a worm payload and checks 50,000 computers randomly (of >course I don't advise this. I just wish there was a way to really push > >this to be run by everyone in the world for a week) > >Maybe with enough hype we could get CNN to advise people to download >it. Actually, it would be nice if someone who writes security software > >like NOD32 or Malwarebytes, or spybot, adaware, etc, would integrate it > >into their test suite. Then you get the thousands of users from them >added to the results. -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.