Anti-Virus is Not Dead – AVIND; nor, incidentally, are anti-spyware or anti-anything dead. We need to be able to identify and remediate (i.e. have research and signature-based technologies) as well as block and prevent (technical issues with white listing not withstanding).

Rather than repost material, I'll offer a link. I put a more extensive position around this together on the CA blog yesterday (note it's not a vendor specific or commercial blog at all, it's for Research bloging) at: http://www.ca.com/blogs/default.aspx?pgType=com&id=90744