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Antivirus: Great Business, Lost Cause
Signature-based scanning software ultimately can't keep up with the high-speed proliferation of viruses and worms
By Simson Garfinkel
November 08, 2002 — CSO — Here's a paradox: The business of antivirus software has never been better. And yet the long-term prognosis in the antivirus battle has never been more bleak.
This fall, the "National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace" stated that all home and business users need to install antivirus software on their computers and update their systems on a regular basis. Most CSOs and CIOs
Compare that with what happened to Korea on April 26, 1999, when more than 1 million computers had their hard drives wiped and their system BIOS erased by the CIH/Chernobyl virus. In many cases, damaged systems required new BIOS chips or motherboards. Total losses were pegged at $250 million in hard dollars.
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