Antivirus software is so sloppily written it actually increases your attack surface, often catastrophically so: https://www.theregister.com/2016/05/17/tavis_or

Antivirus software is so sloppily written it actually increases your attack surface, often catastrophically so: https://www.theregister.com/2016/05/17/tavis_ormandy_zeroes_in_on_antivirus_remotecrash_bug https://www.theregister.com/2016/05/17/tavis_ormandy_zeroes_... https://www.computerworld.com/article/2493275/researcher-finds-critical-vulnerabilities-in-sophos-antivirus-product.html https://www.computerworld.com/article/2493275/researcher-fin...