Virus Scanners Clear Attackers a Path into the Network

OBERURSEL, Germany -- During the past few months, specialists from the n.runs AG, along with other security experts, have discovered approximately 800 vulnerabilties in anti-virus products. The conclusion: contrary to their actual function, the products open the door to attackers, enable them to penetrate company networks and infect them with destructive code. The positioning of anti-virus software in central areas of the company now poses an accordingly high security risk. The n.runs AG is responding to this circumstance with its own system, aps-AV - a solution which secures the entire e-mail and anti-virus ...