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Better antivirus software is worse than a virus?

Written by Rob Rosenberger, 6/11/2003

Anti­virus firms could sell much better soft­ware if the pub­lic wanted to buy it ... but there's the rub. Cus­to­mers don't want better anti­virus soft­ware.

In fact, they abhor it.

When the Melissa virus struck on 26 March 1999, Network Associates never once went offline. They never delayed a single email to their employees. Network Associates didn't release an update for their antivirus software until the wee hours of 29 March, yet they still automatically identified & quarantined all of the infected Melissa attachments sent to their employees' email addresses.

Network Associates uses their own antivirus technology as a matter of corporate policy. Ask yourself: how could they automatically identify & quarantine a virus when their own products couldn't detect it?

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