Hah, malware people love to compare antivirus to seatbelts, stabvests, bank vaults. "You wouldn't tell a bank to keep money in a mattress b/c vaults can collapse!!!". No, but I'd tell them that not bothering to check ID because they have a blacklist of fraudsters is a bad idea.
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Sure, but Witty was aeons ago. Look, I'm not arguing this isn't a serious issue. I'm just explaining that a) almost all people are in practice better off using AV and b) we haven't been able to create the right incentives for AV.
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Sure, Witty was aeons ago, because today they would have sold it to a commercial exploit dealer. If you argue that means it's no longer a serious issue, then we disagree. You can't measure severity based on number of compromises anymore.
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Does hijacking a virus scanner to spy on the contents of people's computers count here? The Kaspersky drama. The attack surface of A/V is also not limited to the code on the end user's machine anymore. (Apologies in advance, honestly not sure whether I'm off-topic or not.)
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Whatever you think of the "Kaspersky drama", I think the overwhelming majority of computer users don't have malware written by their employer own their computer with AV installed.
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