George Orwell <Use-Author-Supplied-Address-Header@[127.1]> wrote in
news:e8f2b8e9f9029b24ea1cd3774e984881@mixmaster.it :

> To summarize: the reason why AV technology fails so frequently is that
> it takes a wrong and ultimately doomed approach to stopping malware.
> Mostly AV products use signatures to recognize the bad guys, but this
> is almost completely useless for new viruses (some well known products
> let in 80 percent of all new viruses). Where they don't use signatures,

80% of all new viruses? Where is the research for this claim please?

> they use heuristics — which means that they try to recognise the bad
> guys by their behavior. This is ineffective because the virus writers
> test their viruses against AV products before they release them and
> only release the ones that will get through. The reality is that the AV


Only release the ones that will get through eh? So... the virus writers
do what then with the ones that didn't get thru? erase them and start
over? LoL!

> companies have been in a technology war with the virus writers and they
> have lost. The outcome is that PCs still get infected by malware at a
> dramatic rate...

Yes, but that's more because of the human factor than anything else. Most
malware can be prevented if the user is properly trained and makes use of
the right software.



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