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Patrick Lambert looks at the shortcomings of antivirus solutions and takes a practical look at what you can expect to get out of them.

By Patrick Lambert
October 2, 2012

If your company or business is anything like most, each computer is likely to run an enterprise antivirus solution, something that costs significant amounts of money each year. But do you know if that antivirus is worth it? How can you test something like that, and would these tests have any meaning in a real world situation? Finally, how easy is it to make a worm or trojan that would bypass all that expensive security software? The sad truth is that those are very hard questions to answer, and a lot of what we’re told when we shop around for security solutions are rumors and statistics. Because worms and viruses evolve on a daily basis, and new types of malware get introduced constantly, it’s extremely hard to properly test an antivirus solution, and anything you throw at your own system in order to see whether your security works is already last year’s threat model.

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