Arguing against AV is like arguing in favor of the pull out method because a condom can break.
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I don't get it, condoms are remarkably effective but Antivirus isn't effective at all. Isn't it more like the exact opposite, arguing for ineffective techniques because there's a non-zero chance it might work, even though you're adding serious risk?
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Condoms also took a few hundred years of R&D to become effective and not increase risk. So, just because AV isn’t there yet, it is invalid? Just because it has flaws, there is no value at all?
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Along those years of research, we explored a lot dead ends, ideas that didn't pan out. There is no way to make the idea "lets blacklist items from an infinite set" work, but we can make whitelisting work.
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Maybe defense ops maturity is a factor also. Does Tavis need AV in his Google Beyondcorp environment? Probably not. Do many of us need it to protect environments full of legacy and security compromises? Yes. At least maybe. Big difference in which AV also.
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Windows defense is getting better at mitigations outside of traditional AV especially, for AV it doesnt do much though from the tests I've seen over the last few years. To you the trad-AV part of Defender works?
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I really think you're confused about what whitelisting is.
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