The End of Signature-Based Antivirus Software?

nosig writes "PCMagazine is running a story around the latest AV-TEST response time and proactive detection test for the latest MS05-039 vulnerability related attacks. The test results were announced by the author to the focus-virus discussion list. What's really impresive, besides the huge difference between response times among antivirus companies, is that two products succeeded to proactively detect all 6 attacks without any signature update. "

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good av software

[l3v1]

Experience taught me that no av solution is good enough if it's just some string scanner. The best solutions I've come across are those which offer string search + resident protection + web shield + resident p2p/torrent and im scan + file hashing with file altering monitoring, and the whole combined with a good firewall. With time I have found the one for the first and one for the second task which I'm satisfied to the point that I quite rarely evaluate newly popped up solutions and install these every time. I won't name them 'cause I'm no free advertiser for nobody. I'm sure the thousands of security experts the /. crowd has :P will provide you with a gazillion of options to choose from :]

Old news...

[Jetekus]

I heard about this ages ago. I think it was called something like "mac"... ;)

Same here, but for different reasons.

[Jerk City Troll]

Just follow these simple rules:

1. Buy a Macintosh

There is no step two!