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News (4)

• Antivirus software 'is being defeated'

  According to the results of the AusCERT 2006 computer crime survey, even though 98 percent of companies used an antivirus product, almost half of them experienced a virus infection over the past year.

• Eighty percent of new malware defeats antivirus

  The most popular antivirus applications on the market are rendered useless by around 80 percent of new malware, according to AusCERT.

• Signature-based antivirus is dead: Get over it

  A hacking competition will attempt to prove that signature-based antivirus is dead but security vendors say, apart from signatures, antivirus is alive and well.

• Patch 'overload' a security problem: AusCERT

  AusCERT general manager, Graham Ingram, has warned against viewing patching as a viable long-term solution to dealing with security vulnerabilities.

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  You're not on the (white)list, you can't come in

  At this year's AusCERT conference, whitelists were a hot topic but is anyone going to use them?

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  Why popular antivirus apps 'do not work'

  Antivirus applications from Symantec, McAfee or Trend Micro -- the three leading AV vendors in 2005 according to Gartner -- are far less likely to detect new viruses and Trojans than the least popular brands.

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