Antivirus doesn’t work. So why are you still using it?

For years, companies have relied on antivirus (AV) software to help detect, prevent and remove malicious code before it becomes a problem.

But standalone AV is no longer effective at stopping today’s increasingly sophisticated barrage of key loggers, backdoors, rootkits, Trojan horses, worms and spyware.

“It is clear that traditional signature-based anti-malware solutions are increasingly ineffective,” says Gartner analyst Neil MacDonald. “In cases where an enterprise is subject to an advanced targeted attack, it may provide no protection at all. [And] in cases where the end user is targeted directly, runs with full administrative rights on their PC and is tricked into running some kind of Trojan, traditional anti-malware solutions are of little value.”

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