Antivirus is Dead: Long Live Antivirus!
Summary: A Wall Street Journal article quoted Symantec executives declaring antivirus software "dead" and saying the company is developing technologies that address online threats from a different angle. Krebs attributes the shift to crypting services, which scan malware against all available antivirus tools and iteratively encrypt it until it is undetectable by every one of them, a state the operators call "FUD" for "fully un-detectable."
Why it matters: Krebs states that if someone opens a malware-laced attachment in the first 12-24 hours after a spam run, there is an excellent chance the antivirus tool in use will not detect that specimen as malicious.
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