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There's an ongoing debate on the usefulness and lack of such of popular anti virus software. In January 2007, the Yankee Group released a 4 pages report starting at $599 -- try a 26 pages free alternative released in January 2006 debunking lots of myths -- entitled "Anti-Virus is Dead: Long Live Anti-Malware" in an effort to not only generate lazy revenues on their insights, but to emphasize on the false feeling of security many AVs provide you with. As a consultant you often get the plain simple question on which is the best anti virus out there, to which you either reply based on lead generation relationship with vendors, or do them a favour and answer the question with a question - the best anti virus in respect to what? Detecting rootkits? Removing detected malware and restoring the infected files to their previous condition? Log event management compatibility with existing security events management software? Fastest response times to major outbreaks? -- psst zero day malware ruins the effect here. Or which anti virus solution has the largest dataset for detecting known malware? Anti virus is just a part of your overal security strategy, and given the anti virus market is perhaps the one with the highest liquidity, thus most $ still go to perimeter defense solutions, too much expectations and lack of understanding of the threatscape mean customer dissatisfaction which shouldn't always be the case. If anti virus software the way we use it today is dead, then John Doe from the U.S or Ivan Ivanov from Russia woud still be 31337-ing the world, the Sub7 world I mean.
Some AVs however perform better than others on given tasks. The recently released AV comparatives speak for themselves. If you're going to use an anti virus software, use one from a company who's core competency relies in anti virus software, and not from a company that entered the space through acquisition during the last couple of years, or from one where anti virus is just part of huge solutions portfolio. Boutique anti virus vendors logically outperform the market leaders -- exactly the type of advice I've been giving out for quite a while.
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