Anti-Virus Scanners May Not Be Enough

This was written by Michael W. Cheek on Monday, February 8, 2010, 14:25.

A central tenet of ‘good cyber hygiene’ is to ensure that you are running up-to-date anti-virus software on your computer. It appears that even that may not be enough. A recent study conducted by SurfRight has found that around a third of users with up-to-date anti-virus software are infected with malware.

To conduct the study, SurfRight used their HitmanPro 3 behavioural scan to scan over 100,000 computers for malware. Approximately one quarter of the users did not have any anti-virus scanner on their computer or using out-of-date software, according to an article on The Register.co.uk.