Symantec Says Free AV Software Can't "Keep Up"
BLORGE spoke with a product manager at Symantec, David Hall, and got some very interesting quotes from the guy. According to Hall, free anti-virus software isn't "able to keep up" with products you pay for. He specifically calls out the upcoming Microsoft Security Essentials product, saying it's incomplete. What say you?
BLORGE spoke with a product manager at Symantec, David Hall, and got some very interesting quotes from the guy. According to Hall, free anti-virus software isn't "able to keep up" with products you pay for. He specifically calls out the upcoming Microsoft Security Essentials product, saying it's incomplete. What say you?
"People tell me, oh well look I use free antivirus because it is free and it protects me from everything in those areas, but when you compare that with what's really going on in the threat landscape, there is a very, very big gap between what antivirus does and the threats that are being delivered today."