Monday, May 07, 2007

Closure (Kind of) to the Anti-Virus Efficiency/Effectiveness Saga

So, this anti-virus efficiency/effectiveness saga is kinda closed with this post AND the discussion that followed.

I suspect that the end is peaceful indeed:
= you likely still need AV,
= AV can be bypassed by attackers (and could have been bypassed in the past),
= the chance of such sad event is probably (but not scientifically) higher now than in the past, given proliferation of many types of "commercial" malware.

Did I summarize it right? :-)

And, finally, Kurt has a point here: malware and anti-malware really isn't my top specialty :-(

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Dr Anton Chuvakin