Considering constant attacks of hackers, McAfee, Symantec and Trend Micro, the three leading security vendors are joining forces to enhance decades-old methodology, which is now seen as an insufficient defense against the internet-borne threats. They are said not to be discarding signature-based defense, which needs detecting a specific malware sample to generate a matching signature so as to spot and remove it. A few of the latest methods being devised by them are going to be unveiled as products this year. Brian Foster, Symantec’s senior director for product management, who notes the security firm receives 200,000 submissions of potential malware each month, was quoted saying, Everyone agrees signature-based defense is not enough. The number of variants is increasing. With the aim of enhancing signature-based detection in its next enterprise anti-virus release set to be brought out this summer, Symantec is intended for incorporating white-listing technology for policy-enabled control of apps down to a software-component level. Foster says that this avant-garde malware protection as of Symantec is also claimed to make use of behavior blocking that boasts of stopping as a minimum a few malware from executing, holding it ‘in a unmoving condition on that system.’ The three leading giant claims that the core of their strategy is that they will change the game .