[pchelpers] News:Anti-Virus Protection Getting Worse?

Heuristics in particular seeing detection drops...
10:04AM Monday Dec 24 2007 by Karl

The same week Kaspersky anti-virus declared that Windows Explorer was a
virus that needed to be quarantined, an upcoming report by a German
computer magazine suggests that anti-virus effectiveness is down.
According to analysis of the report by Heise Security, anti-virus
programs are in particular getting worse at identifying and neutralizing
new threats:

More here:
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/AntiVirus-Protection-Getting-Worse-90468
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