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Former Mozilla dev joins chorus roasting antivirus, says 'It's poison!'

Charles 9

Re: :unsure:

"I'm not removing my AV solution yet, because while it may 'only' protect against 99% of threats, I'd sooner have that protection against those 99% at that layer, and trust that the other 5 or 6 layers of security in my network will deal with the rest. Firefox, on the other hand, is already gone."

But what happens when a malware EXPLOITS the AV software to say create an admin-level exploit and uses it to leapfrog all the other defense layers? Is a layer of defense really worth it when it can be made into a mole?

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