Malware Scanning Moves to the Cloud

Anti-malware software has long been viewed as a necessarily evil, as in, necessary and evil to have on your machine. It's necessary because without it, your computer could become an infected mess, a zombie on a botnet spewing out spam and running as slow as a 386 by today's standards. It's also evil because while spyware and malware can slow your computer to a crawl, AV software isn't a whole lot better. The only... [read full story]