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For your information guys, I’ve dug out an interview regarding the AntiVirus industry by Trend Micro CEO Eva Chen. This is old news, ok?

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.

Most of us should have heard of Trend Micro, a Japanese firm. They are one of the big guys in the AntiVirus field right now, and has deployments across Japan, China and, assumed headquarters of most time, the States.

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