Before the arrival of the fast-spreading worm/blended threat, the staple technology of anti-virus software - fingerprinting - arguably provided both preventative and proactive protection against the average computer virus. That is, in the past, vendors were able to ship new fingerprints for most viruses before they could achieve widespread distribution. This is because traditional viruses spread slowly - only when humans exchange infected files - on the order of days or weeks. Consequently, in the majority of cases, anti-virus software blocked initial infection, preventing corporate machines from being compromised and precluding the need for costly manual cleanup and downtime.
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