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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
The best approach, to borrow nature's own solution, is to stop deploying a monoculture crop on our desktops and servers. Businesses and government should not standardize on a single OS; instead, they should adopt a dual-source or multisource approach
Alas, that approach is clearly more expensive in the short run, but in the long run it is dramatically more secure.
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