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Originally Posted by NSILMike
In the USA, at least, there are several highly respected independent 3rd party labs that evaluate antivirus software. Those I'm aware of include Virus Bulletin, Simon Edwards Labs, AV-Test Institute, and AV-Comparatives.
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As far as I know those simply check how effective they are at detecting known viruses. They never see the source code to check how well it is written.