Ninety-seven per cent of IT professionals think standard antivirus software will stop zero-day attacks

Charlee Gothard
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While only 15 per cent have rolled out network heuristics

A staggering 97 per cent of IT professionals surveyed by Computing are using standard antivirus software to stop zero-day attacks. The research was presented during today's web seminar, entitled...

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