Antivirus Software Skepticism
Discussions criticize third-party antivirus vendors for scandals, sketchiness, and reduced security, while advocating Windows Defender as sufficient and preferable.
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Which other AntiVirus vendors do this? How can you opt-out and is there a point to installing anti-virus software to begin with?
Yup even trusted antivirus vendors do it: Avast Scandal: Why We Stopped Recommending Avast and AVG https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36728825
Are you sure Microsoft's antivirus wasn't enough?
antivirus won't generally do much for those either.
Is there a more performant, less resource-crippling, antivirus for Windows?
Interesting that no anti-virus type software is mentioned.
Which third-party AV isn't dodgy?
Running AV software seems like not the best mitigation here.
What's so bad about AV, and what makes Windows Defender an exception?
That sounds like a poor strategy over just running Windows Defender or the like