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这是补足上一篇文章的一篇关于趋势科技创办人 Eva Chen 的陈年访问。

Q: Trend Micro has recently moved to an ‘in-the-cloud’ service. Surely traditional security methods are still effective enough?
A: In the antivirus business, we have been lying to customers for 20 years. People thought that virus protection protected them, but we can never block all viruses. Antivirus refresh used to be every 24 hours. People would usually get infected in that time and the industry would clean them up with a new pattern file.

In the last 20 years, we have been misrepresenting ourselves. No-one is able to detect five and a half million viruses. Nowadays there are no mass virus outbreaks; [malware] is targeted. But, if there are no virus samples submitted, there’s no way to detect them.

我们大部份的人也会听过 趋势科技 (Trend Micro)。它是一家日本公司，其研究小队遍及日本、中国以及大家可能误以为是发源地的美国。