Anti-virus products struggling against latest exploits

It seems that industry experts are starting to agree that the IT security industry is struggling to tackle the rising tide of malware and hacker exploits.

As reported earlier this month by Infosecurity, CoreTrace senior vice president Ron Clarkson said that hackers may be winning the 'cat and mouse' game against IT security vendors. Citing Panda Security's observations in this regard, Clarkson said that malware samples are doubling year-on-year.

Now his observation has been echoed by leading IT security researcher Brian Krebs, whose online security blog is read by a growing number of internet users. Referencing a report from NSS Labs, he says that most anti-virus products designed for use in businesses do a poor job of detecting the exploits that hacked and malicious websites used to foist malware on users.