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Antivirus vendors can't deal with security threats
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| AN INSECURITY FIRM claims that the
| antivirus software vendors can't keep up
| with the explosion in malware.
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| NSS Labs say that it takes an average of
| two days to block a website designed to
| attack a computer visiting it.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1686819/antivirus-vendors-deal-security-threats
Security firms taking days to block malware
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| Anti-malware vendors can take up to 92.48
| hours to block malicious sites, potentially
| leaving clients in blissful ignorance of
| threats to their systems in the meantime.
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| Security researchers NSS Labs reviewed a
| range of endpoint security products from
| ten big-name security vendors and their
| response to "socially engineered or
| consensual malware threats".
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| It said 15,000 to 50,000 such threats were
| presenting themselves per day.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/06/21/malware_delays/
Security software often misses new malware: Lab
http://www.itworldcanada.com/news/security-software-often-misses-new-malware-lab/140952
Recent:
Potent malware link infects almost 300,000 webpages
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| A security researcher has identified a new
| attack that has infected almost 300,000
| webpages with links that direct visitors to a
| potent cocktail of malicious exploits.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/12/10/mass_web_attack/
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