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Serious question: do people still use antivirus software?
by mv4 2y ago
Serious question: do people still use antivirus software?
- JSDevOps 2y agoNon technical project managers love it.
- throwaway290 2y agoMany do but not by choice
- verdverm 2y agowe run clamav on our linux boxes, it has caught things
- Yodel0914 2y agoKaspersky is more than AV - we use their Safe Kids app to gain some control over our kids' devices.
- ammo1662 2y agoDefinitely. As a developer, I was totally fucked by one of our customers' antivirus software. That AV software has very poor performance. It significantly slows down the DLL/file loading. And the firewall component just simply add delay to all HTTP requests. The “Exclusion” function is also useless as expected. It cost me a lot of meaningless time to investigate the performance issue reported by customers. And you cannot even imagine that as an AV software, their self-protection component is running as a simple Windows service. You can easily disable that by setting a wrong user account to that service. After restart, you can do whatever you want. Honestly, if I am the one who writes virus. I would give credit to the company who make such poor antivirus software and sell to thousands of customers. They do make life easier.
- gus_massa 2y agoA lot of times, the antivirus is part of the crapware that comes with a new windows computer. After a month of free tryal, it start shiwing scarry reminders. And as John reminds us, it may be difficult to uninstall https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKgf5PaBzyg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKgf5PaBzyg