{"id":2219,"date":"2008-12-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-13T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/12\/13\/study-one-quarter-of-antivirus-apps-arent-working\/"},"modified":"2021-12-30T11:40:53","modified_gmt":"2021-12-30T11:40:53","slug":"study-one-quarter-of-antivirus-apps-arent-working","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/12\/13\/study-one-quarter-of-antivirus-apps-arent-working\/","title":{"rendered":"Study: One-Quarter Of Antivirus Apps Aren&#8217;t Working"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than one-quarter of business PCs are running antivirus software that has been disabled or was never properly installed, according to a study that will be published on Monday.  Promisec, a company that makes endpoint management tools, conducted the study on 100,000 PCs to prove a point: that antivirus management consoles from leading vendors are not accurately reporting when their software isn&#8217;t working.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The endpoint security tool vendor hopes the report will help drive users to try out its &#8220;clientless&#8221; management tools, which it says can take a more accurate reading of the status of AV software on remote endpoints. <\/p>\n<p>In many cases, users had turned off the antivirus software, thinking that would make their computers run faster, the researchers say.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What we&#8217;re seeing are companies paying Symantec, McAfee, and others for protection that is only working about 75 percent of the time,&#8221; adds Alan Komet, vice president of marketing for Promisec.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.darkreading.com\/security\/antivirus\/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=EA1KQQBHQNWVKQSNDLPCKH0CJUNN2JVN?articleID=212500149<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trends"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2219"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4706,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2219\/revisions\/4706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}