Endpoint security is changing at a breathtaking pace. For more than a decade, signature-based antivirus was sufficient for most companies. A couple of years ago, spyware emerged as a business-level ...

For years, signature-based antivirus has caught about two-thirds of threats at the network edge — in the last quarter, that success rate has plummeted to only 50%, according to WatchGuard Technologies ...

Virus Bulletin recently published a paper of mine on Hype heuristics, signatures and the death of AV (again). If you're one of the people who've followed my writing over the last couple of decades (hi ...

Software that searches for viruses. Also known as a "virus scanner." As new viruses are discovered by the antivirus vendor, their binary patterns and behaviors are added to a database that is ...