Not sure why you're being downvoted as I think it's a reasonable question to ask when someone's saying antivirus was never necessary. Having seen a few friends

Not sure why you're being downvoted as I think it's a reasonable question to ask when someone's saying antivirus was never necessary. Having seen a few friends' family computers degrade and behave unexpectedly when I was younger, there were definitely people out there who would have benefited. However I think GP is drawing attention to the irony that, as an attack vector, antivirus software as it was conceived actually increased your surface area of risk in some ways.