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Anti-Virus Is Dead (But Still Makes Money) Says Symantec

Posted by timothy on from the look-for-antivirus-with-the-rms-serial-of-approval dept.

judgecorp (778838) writes "Symantec says anti-virus is dead but the company — the world's largest IT security firm — still makes 40 percent of its revenue there. AV now lets through around 55 percent of attacks, the company's senior vice president of information security told the Wall Street Journal. Meanwhile, other security firms including FireEye, RedSocks and Imperva are casting doubt on AV, suggesting a focus on data loss prevention might be better."

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  1. Maybe that their AV sucks? by Sycraft-fu · · Score: 5, Informative

    Good anti-virus still has high detection rates. AV Comparitives puts most virus scanners above 90% detection in their March real world protection test. The better ones are in the 98%+ range. http://www.av-comparatives.org...

    Of course Symantec isn't on that list... perhaps there's a reason :).