That's true, but AV tends to use the same sketchy and unreliable techniques to hook itself in that malware uses. Having benevolent intent doesn't make the softw

That's true, but AV tends to use the same sketchy and unreliable techniques to hook itself in that malware uses. Having benevolent intent doesn't make the software less buggy or less harmful. (I used to lead Mozilla's efforts to extricate buggy third-party AV code from Firefox's processes)