BREAKING: Editor of antivirus industry trade publication recommends antivirus in shocking tell-all interview.
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Heh. FWIW, pointing out a potential interest was about the first thing I did when I spoke to
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Replying to @martijn_grooten @matalaz and
Honestly, obviously an antivirus industry advocate thinks people should give more money to the antivirus industry. A better story would be hearing you rationalize that, and hear why giving money makes antivirus better.
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I did not mention money anywhere.
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Replying to @martijn_grooten @matalaz and
The article should be corrected then, it says "Grooten and Simon [...] still [recommend] getting a third-party one". If that doesn't mean "pay money, or get your newtab page hijacked", then what does it mean?
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There's free AV (actually, there's a lot of them, including some of the bigger names), but I don't think I discussed with
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Replying to @martijn_grooten @taviso and
How many of the free AV are just a way of upselling the commercial offering? For all its faults at least Defender doesn’t (yet?) pop up adverts everyday saying you’d be better upgrading to Defender Internet Security with Ultimate Phishing Protection.
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Replying to @tiraniddo @martijn_grooten and
A discussion on business models is a very interesting one. But I think if we get into that then we get into how your company makes money and it all gets derailed.
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Replying to @lorenzofb @martijn_grooten and
I don't think it's derailing. In the general case for a company to offer a free and a commercial version the free one must have fewer features (or more adverts) than the commercial one to justify the upgrade. If you're arguing that free's good enough why would you ever pay?
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Replying to @tiraniddo @martijn_grooten and
I tend to agree. As I said earlier though, when "average people" (and I know that's a flawed description in and of itself) come to me and ask: should I get an AV? After talking to some people who know more than me about this my conclusion is: probably, yes.
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That conclusion is wrong, and dangerous. I think you're stuck on this idea that the problem with antivirus is antivirus exploits, and that is a serious problem, but the real problem is it just plain doesn't work. It is not safe to click on anything with AV, it is not even safer.
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Replying to @taviso @lorenzofb and
I think all reasonable people, even in the AV industry, will agree with "doesn't make it safe to click on anything". The "not even safer" is more contentious, and that is where the debate is.
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Replying to @taviso @lorenzofb
Yes, they would. They would even, if not always publicly, agree that AV isn't your biggest priority. Here's a funny thing: lots of AV vendor blogs are filled with advice for (home and corporate) users. A lot of this advice actually reduces the need for AV.
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