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[ESET ThreatBlog] For example, if a tester determines that a product has a high rate of false positives, that result could be inaccurate if some samples were wrongly classified as innocent. Thus, it is our position that reasonable care must be taken to properly categorize test samples or test cases, and we especially encourage testers to revalidate test samples or test cases that appear to have caused false negative or false positive results.

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