Modern antivirus software is arguably a scam. To avoid having to determine if a program is actually malicious (which to do definitively would require solving th

Modern antivirus software is arguably a scam. To avoid having to determine if a program is actually malicious (which to do definitively would require solving the halting problem), they simply mark anything they haven't seen as suspicious. Granted, malware developers did use obtuse binary formats, packers, and strangely tweaked executable headers for years.