Dan Gould Posted January 1, 2013 Report Posted January 1, 2013 (edited) The antivirus industry has a dirty little secret: its products are often not very good at stopping viruses. Consumers and businesses spend billions of dollars every year on antivirus software. But these programs rarely, if ever, block freshly minted computer viruses, experts say, because the virus creators move too quickly. That is prompting start-ups and other companies to get creative about new approaches to computer security. http://www.nytimes.c...&pagewanted=all Pretty interesting ... and those last couple of grafs about the threat to smart-phones makes me glad I've stuck with a stupid-phone. Edited January 1, 2013 by Dan Gould Quote
Kevin Bresnahan Posted January 1, 2013 Report Posted January 1, 2013 As I view this on my laptop running Linux (Ubuntu), I smile. Of course, my work PC is still vulnerable, but I don't use that one to surf much and when I do, I always run Firefox with NoScript. Quote
Jim Alfredson Posted January 1, 2013 Report Posted January 1, 2013 Why anti-virus software is behind? Because the developers can't keep up with people's stupidity? "Oh wow, someone I haven't heard from in 5 years just sent me an attachment called You Won't Believe What This Girl Did. I better open it now!" Quote
The Magnificent Goldberg Posted January 1, 2013 Report Posted January 1, 2013 I was pleased to see Avast was one of the best. JIm's right, though; stupidity lures viruses. MG Quote
Dan Gould Posted January 1, 2013 Author Report Posted January 1, 2013 Stupidity is one but hardly the only reason viruses are successfully created and spread. Quote
Jim Alfredson Posted January 1, 2013 Report Posted January 1, 2013 I'd say it's the majority of the reason. I have no anti-virus software on my laptop, which I use daily all over the country, nor on my desktop music machine. And I don't have any viruses on either because I surf smart. Quote
kinuta Posted January 1, 2013 Report Posted January 1, 2013 Avast has a great track record, only once in the last five years has anything broken through and that was soon cleared up. Quote
GregK Posted January 5, 2013 Report Posted January 5, 2013 A Chrome OS-powered laptop will be my next computer purchase. Fast and virus free. Quote
sonnymax Posted January 6, 2013 Report Posted January 6, 2013 what did that girl do? It's not so much what she did, it's where she did it! Quote
alocispepraluger102 Posted January 6, 2013 Report Posted January 6, 2013 interestingly, free suites of the payware brands (e.g. AVG) rank as highly as their pay to play. Quote
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