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> Largely, you probably should not either if you are trusting the AV client with the rest of your computer. Yes, it can be fucked up and break TLS, but there ar
by magicalist 11y ago
> Largely, you probably should not either if you are trusting the AV client with the rest of your computer. Yes, it can be fucked up and break TLS, but there are a thousand other ways a privileged executable like an AV program could fuck up a lot more of your system.
You're right that antivirus software is more or less a sieve of a shield, but this doesn't really make sense.
If AV exploits are worth fixing, then so are the exploits made available by AV certificate handling.
- adrtessier 11y agoI'm quickly understanding that I need to learn to be more specific as to what the premise of my statement is before I comment here. I agree with your point as to fixing all holes; I was making the point more toward people freaking out that these AV systems are inserting the certificates and inspecting the traffic in the first place. Sorry for the confusion.