Malware Evolving Too Fast for Antivirus Apps

WSFuser · Jan 2, 2008

If you think that the latest security suites afford complete protection against malware attacks, think again. Today's for-profit malware pushers use dedicated test labs and other increasingly professional techniques to improve their chances of infecting your computer. And the techniques they employ to outpace security software makers appear to be working.

Make no mistake--a good security program can go a long way toward keeping you in control of your system. But PC World's recent tests of security suites found that new malware easily evaded the applications. In our tests of how well security software blocks unknown malicious programs, the best performer detected only one in four new malware samples. In contrast, February 2007 results from similar heuristics testing showed that the best utilities caught about half of new samples.
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Rmus · Jan 2, 2008

You don't always find positive ideas in articles like this, albeit in this case, they appear at the end:

Getting around you can be much harder for malware creators, however, if you follow basic precautions...

Malware authors may obtain a temporary lead over antivirus programs, but if you take sensible precautions in addition to running security tools, they won't get a leg up on you.
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We might even look forward to articles with statements like this at the beginning; maybe even with titles such as,

Don't Be Victimized By Evolving Malware

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