Antivirus apps: 80% miss rate?
updated 10:00 am EDT, Fri August 4, 2006
Antivirus High Miss Rate
Windows users are often admonished to get an antivirus program to keep their systems safe. They're told that a fully-updated virus definition list is extremely important. But a recent report by Australia's CERT (Computer Emergency Response Team) says that most common antivirus software - including that of McAfee, Norton, and Trend Micro - now fails to intercept 80% of malicious code that reaches users' systems. The fault rests not in the antivirus software's quality, says Graham Ingram of AusCERT, but rather that malware writers are finding more effective ways to avoid detection by antivirus tools. Using a smaller vendor's antivirus software can help, but ultimately the best solution is to prevent malware from reaching your computer in the first place. Implement a firewall and avoid downloading files you don't know you can trust.
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Is this for real? Anyone heard anything to back this up? Seems like something like this would have been all over the news by now...