Analysis: anti-virus strategies under the microscope

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Are organisations focusing excessively on anti-virus software - and neglecting equally important security tools in the process?

When viruses only travelled from computer to computer via floppy disks, protecting PCs from malware was pretty straightforward: samples would be caught "in the wild", a signature taken, the anti-vi...

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