Symantec: "Anti-virus concept 'dead' and 'doomed to failure'

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http://arstechnica.com/security/201...res-av-dead-and-doomed-to-failure/?comments=1

"Commercial antivirus pioneer Symantec has finally admitted publicly what critics have been saying for years: the growing inability of the scanning software to detect the majority of malware attacks makes it "dead" and "doomed to failure," according to a published report."

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In other words, "computer security impossible"?
 
Computer security = common sense, block auto-play, have uac running, a decent anti-virus, don't install dodgey programs and don't surf shady sites... 99% of the time you will be fine
 
There will always be a need for some common sense and education of the person not the software.

Raises an interesting question tho, are the .exe / .pif based viruses of the late 90s early 00s still a threat?
 
Fingolfin said:
http://arstechnica.com/security/201...res-av-dead-and-doomed-to-failure/?comments=1

"Commercial antivirus pioneer Symantec has finally admitted publicly what critics have been saying for years: the growing inability of the scanning software to detect the majority of malware attacks makes it "dead" and "doomed to failure," according to a published report."

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In other words, "computer security impossible"?
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Reading the article, it is exactly what we are involved with, or partly therein. Symantec is still a traditional AV, also seeing that they mentioned Juniper in the article, they use webroot (patented technology) within their appliances, so does Cisco. Norton dropped severely, there are some very detailed analytics on this matter and how problems is approached and resolved, but this is undisclosed.
 
Fudzy said:
There will always be a need for some common sense and education of the person not the software.

Raises an interesting question tho, are the .exe / .pif based viruses of the late 90s early 00s still a threat?
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Yes, but the standard AV (and/or malware), already covers by legacy security technologies. In 2007 anti-virus covered 97% leaving a 3% malware gap, in 2012 the malware gap expanded up to 60% which is mainly due to targeted attacks.
 
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