Struggling with the modern realities of antivirus

By Roger on December 11, 2005 8:18 PM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

Thomas Claburn writes in Information Week (reprinted by Security Pipeline) about the struggle of antivirus companies to keep up with attacks. Its an interesting timeline to follow the creation of definitions for the Santy worm.

It sounds like at least at some antivirus firms they may finally be ready to move on from the broken virus definition update model, and move on toward proactive defenses.

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