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By now, there have been extensive comments from industry experts
about some of the security products in active business usage and how
some of them oer little or no return on investment.
John Viega’s comments on antivirus products in his book, e
Myths of Security are succinct and based on reason and his own per-
sonal experiences as an employee of McAfee (now Intel—one of the
more famous antivirus software vendors), and I certainly cannot nd
any dierences with what he has to say. Even if issues such as perfor-
mance (CPU and memory hits) can be addressed, it is clear that the
advanced persistent threat world is moving too fast for pattern-based
recognition, and the “heuristic” features of ...