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When a person, whose company produces antivirus software that helps protect our systems against cyber criminals, now tells you the antivirus era has come and gone, what do you think will become of us the average computer user? That's what Symentec Senior vice president of information security, Brian Dye revealed to the Wall Street Journal this week. He said the antivirus is dead and no longer a lucrative industry.

Even more of a shock was Dye's revelation of how much cyberattacks his company antivirus software is able to catch. What he told the Wall Street Journal might shock you. The company Antivirus software , Norton, catches just 45 percent of cyberattacks, meaning 55 percent of cyberattacks are still cutting through in people's computers every day.

Piero DePaoli, director of product marketing for Endpoint and Messaging & Web Security at Symantec was quoted as saying, ''the end of the standalone antivirus is over. Antivirus is the foundation for catching known threats. But, a majority of the things we see today are new and unknown and specifically designed to evade your traditional antivirus.''