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Can older version of antivirus protect PC from ransomeware?
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<blockquote data-quote="cruelsister" data-source="post: 741330" data-attributes="member: 7463"><p>Yeah- a traditional AV will detect anything that it has definitions against. Newer AVs normally will also have a Cloud Component so the definitions may be more timely. But as has been noted above, no traditional AV will protect against a true zero day sample (which is what is being pushed out by Blackhats; the only time you will see a few days old ransomware is in Professional AV tests!).</p><p></p><p>So a traditional AV from 2015 with current definitions will be equally useless as a 2018 version of a traditional AV.</p><p></p><p>Hope this helped.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cruelsister, post: 741330, member: 7463"] Yeah- a traditional AV will detect anything that it has definitions against. Newer AVs normally will also have a Cloud Component so the definitions may be more timely. But as has been noted above, no traditional AV will protect against a true zero day sample (which is what is being pushed out by Blackhats; the only time you will see a few days old ransomware is in Professional AV tests!). So a traditional AV from 2015 with current definitions will be equally useless as a 2018 version of a traditional AV. Hope this helped. [/QUOTE]
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