Symantec executive says anti-virus is dead

For consumers, anti-virus has seemed like the same boring thing since the late '80s. It runs in the background, downloads updates, and seems to make computers run slower and slower over time. It just feels like a necessary evil. But Symantec, the long-time maker of Norton Antivirus, is finally changing its strategy and doing something new.

Symantec's senior vice-president for information security, Brian Dye, told the Wall Street Journal that anti-virus "is dead". He is leading Symantec towards a new approach that focuses on spotting hackers within a system and minimising damage from them instead of trying to keep them out. "We don't think of anti-virus as a moneymaker in any way," he told the Journal......Read More

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