In Depth

The Future of Antivirus

As signatures proliferate, antivirus vendors must ramp up other techniques for spotting and squashing malware

By Michael Fitzgerald

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"The idea of a solution that stops real threats and doesn't hamper nonmalicious objects and processes is very attractive. People (at any rate, those who aren't security specialists) like the idea of threat-specific software as long it catches all incoming malware and doesn't generate any false positives, because then they can just install it and forget about it. Unfortunately, that's an unattainable ideal."

Note to Greg Shipley: Don't hold your breath on getting rid of your antivirus software. n

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