> If you have antivirus software installed, you presumably want it to scan stuff that is downloaded from the internet. I don't think you understood the origina

> If you have antivirus software installed, you presumably want it to scan stuff that is downloaded from the internet. I don't think you understood the original proposition. This is about corporate-controlled machines. Engineering teams didn't install this AV on their own machines. The point is they didn't install it; it's a company-mandated install. So no, there's no presumption that they want the AV to scan anything. > if you don't believe/trust in the efficacy of antivirus software, then there's no point taking half measures and excluding some things from its scans I 100% agree. Half measures / excluding some things IS pointless. But as I said in my above comment, that pointless half-measure may just have been the only compromise management would agree to. > why use it at all? Because it's mandated by company policy...