Is testing every Anti-Virus definition before deployment feasible?

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Published on 2010-04-26T07:44:31Z Indexed on 2010/04/26 7:53 UTC
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With the recent problems that McAfee customers have had over the last week there has been lots of opinion that not only should the AV vendors have better testing but customers should test AV signatures before deploying.

Is this feasible? If you are doing this already do you take other measures to minimise exposure to malware while you are testing?

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