It's shameful that OS security updates still aren't applied automatically and AV was useful when viruses were simple. However, AV vendors started pushing heuri

It's shameful that OS security updates still aren't applied automatically and AV was useful when viruses were simple. However, AV vendors started pushing heuristics that look for things like contacting IRC servers. Any application that moves large amounts of data around will run into hash collisions and developers have to run around asking to be added to a whitelist. These heuristics do not scale and mislead consumers into thinking that their computer is safe because it has antivirus. In reality, we need to re-architect operating systems to be safer.