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Yet incidents of viruses/ransomware infecting PCs after clicking attachments/links exist so we need at least a purely functional (file/link in - risk guess out)
by qwerty456127 5y ago
Yet incidents of viruses/ransomware infecting PCs after clicking attachments/links exist so we need at least a purely functional (file/link in - risk guess out) antiviruses. I generally use VirusTotal but I it doesn't seem reasonable to use it for checking potentially confidential files.
- grishka 5y agoExcept when something says "please disable your antivirus before opening this", many people would gladly do so. IMO at this point, it's a social problem, not a technical one. People need to be taught about this stuff.
- qwerty456127 5y ago> Except when something says "please disable your antivirus before opening this", many people would gladly do so. Unless you plug it right into your company e-mail server or just hide it well enough to keep vulnerably-unadvanced users away - e.g. my elderly mother would hardly disable her antivirus if that required editing the registry or entering a long terminal command.