![]() As the industry progressed in the 80s and 90s, players such as Panda Security, Trend Micro, Symantec, F-Secure, avast!, AVG, and Kaspersky joined the growing market of antivirus solutions, which are commonly used today in homes and businesses around the world. Fast forward to 1987, when a handful of true antivirus utilities were released the most well-known today being VirusScan by McAfee, and NOD, which was the predecessor to ESET. The next year, programmer Ray Tomlinson (best known for inventing email) wrote another worm, Reaper, which was designed to detect and remove the Creeper worm from systems while some may argue that Reaper was the first antivirus program ever written, its behavior was similar to that of a virus itself, in that it was deployed without the consent of the system owners and administrators. ![]() Creeper, as it was called, was a worm which copied itself across mainframe computers on ARPANET, with its only damage being the copying of itself to other mainframes, and the printing of the line “I’m the creeper: catch me if you can”. A Brief History of Antivirusīack in 1971, the first computer virus was written. ![]() Today, I’d like to take you through a brief history of antivirus, a discussion of the challenges facing “traditional” antivirus products, and then discuss the different types of “next-generation” endpoint protection options. ![]() This has led to a shift in the industry towards “next-generation” endpoint protection…except the term “next-generation” refers to a variety of methods for combating modern malware. Over the last few years, “traditional” antivirus protection has become increasingly ineffective against modern malware. But what is in?īy Kellen Christensen, Solution Architect EndPoint Security has changed… Virus Protection is out.
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