Security Bites 105: Does antivirus protection matter?
This week CNET's Robert Vamosi talks with Eva Chen, co-founder and CEO of Trend Micro.
For more than 20 years Chen has been active in the antimalware community and has kept her company competitive worldwide against competition such as Symantec and McAfee
Chen visited CNET to talk about Trend Micro's ambitious goal of putting anti-malware protection in the cloud. She argues that signature-based protection is still faster than running a full heuristic sandbox to detect new malicious software.
Chen thinks that by having your desktop ping a signature database in the cloud you'll get a faster, lighter, and more accurate, anti-malware protection for your desktop. Also, when new malware is discovered on your desktop, a sample can be sent to the cloud, analyzed, and if necessary, a new signature created--protecting not only you but anyone else who finds it.
Clearly threats and protection have both changed over the years. Recently, some security experts have been talking about doing away with antivirus protection, saying that most of the threats today are coming from Web 2.0 sources, and can be better blocked with firewalls and secure Web browsers.
Of course, Chen disagrees.
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As CNET's resident security expert, Robert Vamosi has been interviewed on the BBC, CNN, MSNBC, and other outlets to share his knowledge about the latest online threats and to offer advice on personal and corporate security. Listen to his podcast at securitybites.cnet.com or e-mail Robert with your questions and comments. 
Robert Vamosi has appeared on CNN, NBC, ABC, MSNBC, and various other media outlets as an expert on computer viruses, spyware, identity theft, phishing, and other criminal activities on the Internet.
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