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He might know what AV technology is like today on a theoretical basis but he seems utterly clueless on a granular technical level. His comment that AV is neces
by astrodust 10y ago
He might know what AV technology is like today on a theoretical basis but he seems utterly clueless on a granular technical level.
His comment that AV is necessary today seems completely out of touch. There's two things more important than anything else these days: Keeping patched as you mention, but also never, ever giving clueless users administrator access on the machine.
I'm not sure any AV package will protect a sufficiently stupid user from a targeted spear-phishing attack, and that's the real threat to worry about.
- dublinben 10y agoAn adblocker in your browser will mitigate your actual threats better than any AV running on your system.
- tracker1 10y agoTo the last point... at least today, you can usually "fix" an infection by creating a new user, logging in as that new user, and copying over necessary files from the infected, then delete the infected profile. On the flip side, depending on the infiltration, if it can be used to target other systems, it doesn't matter if it's escalated or not, if it can run.