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Re:“AV is my single biggest impediment to shipping a secure ... by mfukar on Thursday December 01, 2016 @10:46AM (#13080127)
AVs have been obsolete in every way imaginable when it comes to offense. As another comment said, they're less effective than band-aids - not only they can be bypassed almost trivially, they increase attack surface.
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Re:“AV is my single biggest impediment to shipping a secure ... by eitland on Friday December 02, 2016 @12:26AM (#13086264)
> not only they can be bypassed almost trivially,

Sounds almost crazy but I agree as I saw some 17y.o. students I taught who created a simple, autoupdating undetected .exe trojan in autohotkey in an evening or so.

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