Or against installed software that, strictly speaking, isn't malicious. Most crapware installed by "enhanced" installers (I guess that's what happened to silenced) is deliberately not flagged by AVs, because for some reasons some people do voluntarily want to have their entire browsing history sent to Kazakhstan.Antilogic wrote:AV is ineffective against more recent and increasing popular forms of attacks that generally don't rely on installing malicious software on your computer.
Neither should you throw money after it – be it directly or indirectly (e.g. advertisements).That is not mean you do not install AV.
AV does very little more than giving you a warm fuzzy feeling that you surely must be protected… until you realize you're not. All this "AV x is better than y!" crap distracts from the fundamental issue that it doesn't matter. AV is dead. Stop caring. Secure your browser and any other internet-facing software instead.
"Please stop relying on our free products and upgrade to our premium software, this time we're really gonna save you we swear!" Yeah… I'm not that optimistic.The line in the final paragraph is about as close as the article comes to being correct: "antivirus is just one of many tools needed to keep your computer safe against increasingly savvy attackers".