Another antivirus software flaw detected

Corporate TCO: TCO must also include the costs associated with remediating infected machines. Additionally, if your organization's operational security requirements are high then you do not have the option of relying upon a single security product across the enterprise. In remediating a high security LAN that had been severely compromised (partially due to an attack on Trend Micro's anti-virus product), we recommended a combination of avast and the very affordable f-prot. Cost of the cleanup to our client was in excess of $19000.

At home I've used McAfee for years, but recently switched my kids machines to avast after McAfee had repeated problems auto-updating. An anti-virus package without the latest definitions affords little protection. With avast I can rest assured that those machines are being updated daily.

SANS argument for defense in depth requires not only that an organization have anti-virus and firewalling on domain clients, but also that enterprise security products not be subject to a single point of failure.

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