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It's fucking disaster to read your blog in iphone, please fix it. At least disable fixed width or disable right left surfing. I am not web developer, so i may give wrong suggestions, but please fix you template it is like piece of shit( the experience)
> At best, there is negligible evidence that major non-MS AV products give a net improvement in security. I apologize for present anecdote when data is needed but I manage a Windows network with 100+ users and on a daily basis, Kaspersky catches 5-10 emails from Outlook that have nasty attachments. It prevents my users from opening these innocuous looking but nasty Invoice-Jan-2017.docx files. Without a good AV there…
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That's exactly what I had in mind when I read the GP. If third party AVs have a large and complex codebase with unknown or even known security flaws, they won't help much against targeted attacks or make them even easier. On the other hand, AV usability is so bad you can't expect it to help "normal" people. All those popups do more harm than good when people start ignoring them.
Well, I agree that AV most likely wouldn't protect you against targeted attacks - but most of the attacks that we investigated were targeted quite broadly - phishing email campaigns targeting financial organizations (with address lists based on some hacked legitimate resources for accountants, for example). And usually these attack succeeded because of insecure infrastructure, poorly trained admins, old, non-updating…
Maybe the perception that you can achieve some kind of security through band-aid solutions is exactly the cause for the lacking security of many organizations?
I will consider this. I " maintain " my relatives computers which is basically to install an anti-virus and adblock. They still get those sketchy messages from friends from time to time though, which is the main reason that I keep them with an AV. Is this correct? Does AV improve security for people who cannot differentiate between a .pdf and an .exe? Personally I don't use an AV, I am a bit paranoid and technical co…
I don't use an AV either, but I'm very careful with the things I download (and I don't download new stuff very often). My relatives, on the other hand, will click just about anything that says "click me" (even more if it says they will win a prize or something). Windows Defender is great and it's enough for me but my relatives need something that cover more areas. Any way you can think of tricking them, they will fal…
I also want to raise an alarm about a current AV practice, not mentioned in the article: AV products like Bitdefender will MITM your HTTPS connections by installing their own root certificates, by default and without warnings In the name of "security", this undermines the very purpose of what HTTPS is about, knowingly endangering their users. And consider that I, a highly technical and security conscious software dev…
Yes. Also, let's finally start a public discussion about AV companies making money by selling data (they do, either all of them or most). Of course that being able to peek into https traffic gets them more data (specific urls, not just whole sites).
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2492599,00.asp
https://www.av-comparatives.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/a...
Who writes all these viruses ? I mean, I've experimented with assembler when I was a teenager and I may have developed some kind of program which could replicate itself.. but I highly doubt today's viruses are written by teenagers... Who and why do people write viruses ? Is this a thing at all or are all the viruses written by the Antivirus makers themselves ? More 'threats' is good news for the A/V makers so why not…
If you have some time to watch a video, here's a clip of F-Secure's Mikko Hyppönen expaining some of the origins of network attacks and malware: https://www.ted.com/talks/mikko_hypponen_fighting_viruses_de...