Prescribing the best virus medication

摘要

with viruses and worms havoc across the Internet, it's not a question of whether companies need anti-virus software, but knowing which product will work best to protect your information assets. Our roundup reveals three winning choices. Unless you've been living in a cave for the past year, you've probably encountered one or more of the viruses and worms that have plagued corporate networks around the world. If you haven't been infected, you've at least received a few zillion e-mails carrying some variant of SoBig or Klez or Gibe or Swen or any of many hundreds of other unfriendly chunks of code released by lowlifes worldwide. These vandals, whose "products" take down networks, steal passwords, surreptitiously install back doors so their authors can later grab control of the computer for nefarious purposes, or simply destroy data and even entire computers, have spawned a growing industry: anti-virus products.