MSDN - Terry Zink's Cyber Security Blog: The efficacy of anti-virus

tzink
28 Jun 2010

Brian Krebs has a good post up on the efficacy of anti-virus products and how A/V should not be relied upon as a substitute for common sense (not opening untrusted attachments, not clicking on links in spam, ensuring you have up-to-date software, etc). The reason, says Krebs, is that most A/V products are not very good at detecting zero-day malware. Below is a chart showing how good certain products are (names removed) at catching pieces of malware that A/V products would traditionally be expected to detect.

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