Re: Antivirus- A Corrective Control?

["Sandeep Cheema " <51l3n7 () live in>]

My 0.02$

Preventive. Corrective would be if the machine has been compromised and the next task is to clean it.  But that's not 
how AV behaves ideally. An infected machine can never be cleaned fully but can be prevented completely from getting 
infected. If you got an AV in place, it should not get infected at all ( as per vandor's claims atleast

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-----Original Message-----
From: kartik.netsec () gmail com
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2011 07:15:15 
To: <security-basics () securityfocus com>
Subject: Antivirus- A Corrective Control?

Hi, I have a confusion whether Antivirus is a Preventive control or a Corrective control? I am preparing for CISSP and 
somewhere I have read that AV is a corrective control. I somehow disagree with this point. 

I believe AV can only be a corrctive control if the machine (without AV) gets infected and then AV software is 
installed on it.

On the other hand, a machine already having an AV installed should be taken as a Preventive control.

Any inputs please?

Thanks,
Kartik

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