EarthLink Introduces Protection Control Center 2.0

Earthlink is a company that is used to dealing with security issues. As the nation's largest independent ISP, they have seen more than their fair share of attacks. For this reason, they've added a new components to their Protection Control Center product, including Attack Shield.

The report says that the traditional anti-virus system, which is based on virus signatures, cannot react quickly enough to threats and cannot react to threats which affect thousands of users but not millions of users. More importantly, signature databases are becoming too big. "The signature files of the market leading anti-virus product that Yankee Group uses, for example, exceed 9 MB, encompassing 200,000 signatures. Full disk scans of a typical PC's 100,000-plus files exceed 90 minutes."

Pricing remains the same, despite the increased functionality.