Krebs on Security has posted a new item. "Antivirus Software is Dead?"

[ShyWriter]

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Krebs on Security has posted a new item.

An article in The Wall Street Journal this week quoted executives from antivirus
pioneer Symantec uttering words that would have been industry heresy a few years
ago, declaring antivirus software "dead" and stating that the company is
focusing on developing technologies that attack online threats from a different
angle. This hardly comes as news for anyone in the security industry who's been
paying attention over the past few years, but I'm writing about it because this
is a great example of how the cybercrime underground responds to -- and in some
cases surpasses -- innovations put in place by the good guys.

http://krebsonsecurity.com/2014/05/antivirus-is-dead-long-live-antivirus/

Please use the link above to continue reading this posting. -- Brian Krebs

 

/Steve

[Firefox]

Interesting article...

[Ghost_Killer]

yes it is and they atleast were honest about their av and not sugar coating it like some companies 

[GT500]

It was marketing hype for their "new technology".

[blackdove83]

I wonder if its a hypervisor like Bromium.

[John L. Galt]

It was marketing hype for their "new technology".

 

+1.  Look at all the reprints of the original story and the people blogging about it now - they (Symantec) achieved exactly what they set out to achieve.

[GT500]

+1.  Look at all the reprints of the original story and the people blogging about it now - they (Symantec) achieved exactly what they set out to achieve.

Considering the fact that they were the ones that helped the maker of CryptoDefense figure out that it was leaving the private key behind on infected computers (which means he was able to 'fix' that to make decryption impossible), they were probably desperate for good press.