Not Dead But Twitching: Anti-Virus Succumbs To The Scourge Of Modern Malware

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Presented at SOURCE Boston 2008 by

Andrew Jaquith

The security of PCs is no longer a tractable problem that can be solved by better engineering, more thorough code reviews, user education or bigger budgets. Financially motivated malware is forcing anti-malware vendors to dramatically change strategies. By 2010, vendors will largely abandon the signature-based technologies that have been the mainstay of the anti-virus industry for 20 years.