AV(Sophos) + AS(Webroot) = A Security Partnership Worth Watching

Most of the press releases that float across my radar are, to be brutal, nothing more than fishing exercises. A little bit of bait dangled out across the cyber-ether in the, usually highly over-optimistic, hope of catching a bored journalist off guard. Sometimes the hook has a juicy enough worm to catch my attention, as was the case with the news that one of my favourite providers of enterprise Anti-Spyware software had jumped into bed with one of my favourite providers of enterprise Anti-Virus protection. The only mystery was why the affair had taken so long to get going.