Re: Antivirus- A Corrective Control?

[John Morrison <john.morrison101 () gmail com>]

This document (http://itsecuritylive.com/PDF/CISSPc.pdf) in question
1173 says it is a preventive technical control.

On 11 August 2011 08:46, gold flake <ptinstructor () gmail com> wrote:
> > My 0.02$
> >
> > Preventive. Corrective would be if the machine has been compromised and the next task is to clean it.  But that's 
> > not how AV behaves ideally. An infected machine can never be cleaned fully but can be prevented completely from 
> > getting infected. If you got an AV in place, it should not get infected at all ( as per vandor's claims atleast
>
>
> I do not think so.  An AV can only play catch-up with the known
> threats and not prevent something it does not know about.
>
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