Symantec: Antivirus is Dead



Jakarta - As one of the largest manufacturers of antivirus , Symantec's statement that one of the bosses is indeed quite surprising . The reason , he believes that the era of the antivirus application has ended .

Symantec's Norton products , has been present for a dozen years to fence off the computer from malicious programs . With his experience it seems reasonable that so long if Norton became one of the best-selling antivirus .


But the golden age of Norton seems to be coming to an end . Brian
Dye , senior vice president for Symantec , feel antiviral era is dead . The industry in this field must find new ways to grow their business ." We see that the antivirus is no longer a product that generates . Antivirus is dead , " said Dye told the Wall Street Journal quoted on Wednesday ( 05/07/2014 ) .

Speech Dye was not without good reason . He saw nothing as sophisticated as new antivirus , still there will be hackers can break into . Then take advantage of the action .


Antivirus is also believed to have not potent to combat cyber crime . According to Symantec , only about 45% of cyber attacks that the application be denied . That is, if the antivirus used yet conceded .Well , rather than merely combating the endless it , Symantec said they would look for other ways to grow its business , and the antivirus will only take a small portion of the services .


Symantec will form a special team that will make network security products , social media , preventing malware that infiltrate the site , secure VPN , and protection to the cloud level computting . So the future of antivirus is no longer a mainstay product manufacturers from the United States .

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