Antivirus expert confirming software is no match - Detect and respond is the new strategy

05/06/2014 - 00:00

  By <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/profile/samuel-gibbs">Samuel Gibbs</a> -<br><br><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/may/06/antivirus-software-fails-catch-attacks-security-expert-symantec">Antivirus software only catches 45% of malware attacks and is "dead", according to a senior manager at Symantec.<br><br>Remarks by Brian Dye, senior vice-president for information security at the company, which invented commercial antivirus software in the 1980s and now develops and sells Norton Antivirus, suggest that such software leaves users vulnerable.<br></a><br><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/may/06/antivirus-software-fails-catch-attacks-security-expert-symantec">READ MORE ON THE GUARDIAN</a>