Tweaktown: Lastline Labs co-founder Engin Kirda isn’t impressed by anti-virus software and their overall ability to defend against malware attacks.
Security experts cannot seem to agree whether or not anti-virus software today is adequate to defend against sophisticated malware attacks, with another industry leader saying most anti-virus simply isn’t effective. Lastline Labs researched malware samples for one year from May 2013 to May 2014, using 47 anti-virus signatures, and found that no solution detected every malware sample on any of the test days.
