Viruses still appear via email. They still lurk on the corners of the web. This also includes Mac viruses.
It is more about dubious software trying to grab your passwords out of your Browser. Or plucking out Cryto wallet keys. Borrowing your computer to be part of a botnet. Or plain encrypting it
It is not like the days of XP where a PC was easy to compromise. Instead more money is now made from a scammer sending you that “your subscription has expired” email and stealing your password for your email account. Made easier by people using the same password on too many sites.
You are then glad that the AV program warned you about the bad website you tried to enter.
And yes - seen them all this year.
Avast and AVG are not the products they used to be, and Microsoft Defender is still the product it used to be… Too much of their output is about fear factor confusion. And mistakes. Like in that other thread the error over the bad certificate just caused by low traffic to the website.
Avast has become a bloated mess, now merged with the remains of AVG. Many of these AV companies just run on fear to make you keep upgrading.
Norton and McAfee are not AV… they are just junk to slow down a PC.
If you are paying for AV, then pick Eset for less interference and fear factor.
Now I agree there. Peter Norton was a skilled programmer. I still have a book of his somewhere. And maybe his original anti-virus floppies for DOS.
He sold his company to Symantec in the 1990s, and then left. That company then traded on his name for decades more. He should have sued.
See also John McAfee. Two skilled people who’s names were dragged through the trash by bad products. (Though I don’t think Peter Norton went drug running in South America)
Above video is only reason McAfee trumps Norton… We need more John McAfee’s in this world, and less Elon Musk
If you installed a crack for an anti-virus you ran the risk of just plain installing the virus directly.
Usually the way anti-virus was “made free” was someone cracking the code used for the actual company unlock keys. Making a keygen. I saw this happen with a certain well known brand. They swapped from having “keys” to using a “Home account” where you could “check which machines were registered to your key”.
I had a friend who setup their account, then checked their key. Found 30 Russians using it…
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