Anti-virus: Last Rites, or Rites of Passage?

Anti-virus is dead. Again. Actually, the corpse has been walking and talking for so long that it’s a wonder no one has called Buffy Summers [1] to put a stake through its heart. However, one of our competitors did summon the spirit of VirusTotal (VT) to prove that AV is so far past its best-before date that it should only be used when given away free [2] (or maybe retrieved from the dustbins at the back of the cybermarket).