I thought it was funny. I didn't see it as trying to remove gender as much as talk about how rubbish the practice is (antivirus programs are huge attack vectors

I thought it was funny. I didn't see it as trying to remove gender as much as talk about how rubbish the practice is (antivirus programs are huge attack vectors, and I assumed the author was calling the anti-virus a Monster). Chill out. If you start to find offense in everything. you're not going to have a happy life.