Earlier this year, antivirus king Symantec sent shockwaves through the business community with the statement that antivirus software was “dead”—leaving businesses wondering, now what? Symantec dropped the bombshell to make a point: These days, a PC armed with a good firewall and some topflight antivirus software is simply no match against a sophisticated, determined hacker.
The reason: The number of new viruses unleashed on the public everyday can be as many as 200,000, accruing to Kapersky Lab, a computer security firm.