And this is why antivirus is, by and large, an utter waste of CPU cycles and IO wait time. The ones it catches you could have avoided by not being an idiot. Th

And this is why antivirus is, by and large, an utter waste of CPU cycles and IO wait time. The ones it catches you could have avoided by not being an idiot. The ones you WANT it to catch go sailing by. Meanwhile your life is a misery because every single little file access goes through the antivirus - much like any other root kit, in fact. Ask me what that does to performance when you develop in Java, and every single JAR file gets unpacked and scanned every time...