I have been a Windows user since Windows 98. I have used pretty much every single anti-virus that ever existed but what exactly are they protecting us from?
I have had this Laptop for around 7 month now, admittedly I have 100’s of movies and dozens of games that I have “acquired” through various activities. I won’t lie, most of us do it.
But what is my Anti-Virus doing?
Fuck all, I have not had a Virus on this laptop since the day I got it.
My GF has a PC, she has had it for 3 years and she downloads stuff like there is no tomorrow, I have used Free and Paid Anti-virus, Norton/McAfee just slowed down anything they got put on, I moved over to AVG/Avast!
None of these Anti-virus have ever found a Virus, ever.
The few times in the past I have had a Virus, the Anti-Virus never even done a thing. You know one of those ones that happens to embed itself in your system tray.
So what exactly does Anti-Virus even do? Does it just bloat our PCs now? Or are they actually doing something? Are viruses as common as they were 10 years ago?
Are the people developing this software getting paid for nothing?
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