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Fileless Malware and the Demise of Anti-Virus
Security Operations Team
  • Jun 23, 2018
  • 5 min

Fileless Malware and the Demise of Anti-Virus

One of the most common questions we get at Jigsaw Security is routinely the question as to whether or not Anti-Virus protection is enough. When we tell our customers that we don't run Anti-Virus, some ask why and other tell us were crazy. In fact we have not run persistent Anti-Virus products since 2012. The reason being is that Anti-Virus will not detect several types of malware and is in our opinion wholly outdated. This is why vendors such as Symantec and OpenText use endp
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Yes, We told you Antivirus was a risk!
Jigsaw Security TSCM Team
  • Sep 28, 2017
  • 2 min

Yes, We told you Antivirus was a risk!

Update: On 13 Nov 2017 we noted an article that looks pretty familiar. You can read the article at the following link. As such we thought we would update our article but we have one questions for the authors of this article. What about the other vectors? The zero days that cannot be patched? The DLL issue we already explained years ago but what about the operating system hooks? As mentioned in a previous blog post we have been warning users of Antivirus products that certain
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