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Story: Change of tactics in war on viruses

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Ironport are right to highlight the weaknesses of traditional anti virus products, although this is not a new thing to talk about. Companies like ourselves have been promoting pro active anti virus detection for some time now, and we have been recognised many times as the leader in this field by independent sources. However as the media is dominated by the bigger well known players who do not have such technology, the pro active message is constantly drowned out.
In respect to Ironports solution, it would appear that they are simply stopping suspected files at the gateway, not really identifying if they contain malware or not. This decision still resides with the end user who can let the file in, but I suppose in the instances where damage is done Ironport can say we told you this might happen.

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