Antivirus industry lied for 20 years

[Humpty]

Eva Chen, chief executive of Trend Micro, has strong views about how effective the antivirus industry has been over the past 20 years.

 

According to Chen, the security industry has over-hyped how effective its products are ? and so has been misleading customers ? for years.

 

Chen believes that no single company can offer adequate protection against the sheer volume of new viruses that are being churned out by cybercriminals. According to the security industry, five and a half million new samples were detected in 2007.

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Chen states that no single company can offer adequate protection but maybe some apps such as Sandboxie, Defensewall, Geswall, Returnil and some others that don't rely on signatures may offer much better protection.

[Corona]

And this guy bought stock in which sandboxing company?

[Tom AZ]

Are both Geswall and Defensewall similar in function to Sanboxie?

[Andavari]

And why wouldn't it be overhyped?

 

If they were detecting as much as they claim there'd be no real need for HJT logs, etc., however many of those logs have an AV already installed that didn't detect the malware. Security is as much about common sense as it is having adequate and a layered defense of software installed.

 

Just my 2 cents.

[CTskifreak]

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AJ