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M86 Security Finds URL Filters, Anti-Virus Scanners Ineffective
Doug Caverly
Staff Writer
2010-03-02
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New data from M86 Security corroborates the widely held idea that anti-virus scanners and URL filters won't save careless Web users. Indeed, the security company estimates that more than half of all threats can evade these two means of detection, leaving people at risk from lots of nasty stuff.
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M86 Security's new report, "Closing the Vulnerability Window in Today's Web Environment," indicates that anti-virus scanning correctly identifies just 39 percent of Web threats, which isn't exactly impressive. But the practice of URL filtering fares even worse, detecting just 3 percent of threats.
Assuming these figures are accurate, something obviously needs to be done, and it seems that adding a third layer of security may be the trick.
Bradley Anstis, the vice president technical strategy at M86 Security, explained in a statement, "To counter the specific cases that we analyzed in this report, and to ensure maximum efficiency, we believe a three-pronged approach of combining URL filtering, anti-virus scanning and real-time code analysis should be best practice."
This practice achieved a 100 percent success rate in M86 Security's testing. Although people should of course exhibit caution online no matter how well-protected their computers seem to be.
About the Author:
Doug is a staff writer for SecurityProNews, InternetFinancialNews, SearchNewz, and WebProNews.
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