Symantec And Security Starlets Say Anti-Virus Is Dead
Found on TechWeek Europe on Tuesday, 06 May 2014
“The overall detection by anti-virus software in January was disappointing — only 70.62 percent. For February it is even worse — only 64.77 percent was detected. And in March the average detection was 73.56 percent. That might not sound too bad but it means that 29 percent, 35 percent and 26 percent was not detected,” the company’s report read.
It's a cat and mouse game. It doesn't matter how many percent an AV product recognized; it's important how quickly it catches new malware. People don't use the same trojan for months; they are highly customized and targeted these days.