Given the response I’ve received to the comments I made last week about Anti-Virus software, I may decide to cover this issue regularly. Perhaps I shouldn’t be surprised to attract flack from the Anti-Virus vendors. However, I’ve yet to see one good argument in favour of signature-based AV (either in the comments posted to this blog or in emails I’ve received). The simple fact is that signature-based AV software is inadequate protection and its day is passing.

There is technology that does a far better job. I’ve mentioned 3 vendors (AppSense, Bit9, Securewave) who provide such technology and more will probably emerge soon. (Any vendors out there with similar technology please let me know). It’s early days, but I have little doubt that a new trend is in progress here. I can tell from some of knee-jerk reactions to the last blog and I can feel it in the air.

We’re not done here.

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