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LOL sorry, funny to see all the "never had a problem therefore X is perfect" responses. Ignorance is bliss right? OICURMT has the most accurate response so far... its a personal choice. That's it. Antivirus programs are all just as good or bad as each other they don't do what they used to do or what people assume they do. I've had this argument over the years with many "experts" I've met in person and been able to plug in my thumbdrive and fire up out of date anti virus software and immediately find a bunch of nasties running in memory (laughable these experts let me plug a thumbdrive in at all). Viruses arent around much anyway these days and they rarely damage files either (so you never notice an infection). Definitions of viruses, spyware, malware, zombies etc change it seems depending on context. But the profit for writers of nasties is personal information gathering to onsell in bulk databases. Antivirus programs dont clean anything, they delete files leaving you with loss of data and an increasingly unstable operating system. They get paid by the likes of Adobe to search for patches and keygens allowing people to unlock trial software without paying for it and instead reporting its a trojan or whatever so you feel a bit safer. Dodgy emails are only a small way these malicious programs get onto computers, The way the US and Israeli governments got Stuxnet into nuclear reactors (which are an isolated closed network, unreachable by any means other than physically) took advantage of dumb human nature and complacency over antivirus trust.
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