Is the anti-virus industry here to protect us, or blame us?

Yet again the anti-virus industry has let us down. This time they are blaming the administrator and users for not patching against an exploit.

(PRWEB) March 21, 2004 --Yet again the anti-virus industry has let us down. This time they are blaming the administrator and users for not patching against an exploit.

So, when is the anti-virus industry going to stop blaming their customers and start protecting us?

Nick Scales, CEO of avecho.com stated today "This type of attack is just plain obvious. Our anti-virus stopped it dead in its tracks. We have been predicting this type of event for some time. We think there will be a new generation of viruses which do not send any dangerous code into the users computer but will rely on exploits to open the computer to attacks from the incubator community. This is exactly what has happened with Bagel-Q, and the anti-virus industry was just unable to protect their customers. Bagel-Q is the proof point of everything we have been saying."

He continued "We have to move away from reactive, definition based anti-virus. It plainly just does not work. There are real anti-virus technologies out there that do not rely on selling their customers updates and definitions. avecho GlassWALL stopped Bagel-Q dead in its tracks, with no delay, no updates. No avecho customer even received the Bagel-Q email"

He added "Non-definition technologies are now tried and tested - and it is time the users were made aware that the really can be safe from these malicious attacks".

avecho has running a campaign to highlight the inadequacies of current anti-virus and the preposterous stance that traditional definition selling companies take. They pick and choose what they protect their customer from and continue to blame Microsoft, the administrator or the users for their own short comings.

avecho has been using their non-definition anti-virus since 2002 and have never passed a virus, Trojan, worm or exploit, and are the only company in the world to guarantee 100% protection from all viruses.
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avecho.com provides a complete worry-free email service including email recovery and legal compliance as well as industry leading anti-spam and anti-virus from 1.00 per mailbox per month. Secure email is accessible from any location via webmail and is stored in a private searchable archive for seven years to comply with legal auditory requirements.

Available in Europe, US and the Middle East avecho.com is licensed by pioneering security technology company avecho which produces anti-virus engine GlassWall guaranteeing 100% protection from all malware.