In defence of security software - an interview with Trend Micro's Rik Ferguson

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Trend Micro's global vice president of security research, Rik Ferguson, talks to Computing about how anti-virus software has developed and why it shouldn't be classified as 'just' anti-virus

Q. Is it fair to say that AV becomes more ineffective as a ‘defence' the more important the data to be protected is? No, the value of the data to be protected does not have any impact on the raw...

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