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Do any consumer AV suites actually try identifying and removing or quarantining state-actor-level malware?

Anti-Virus only finds the very most common virus' and malware.

I think only 30% of malware is detected~ I remember reading about that a while back and this was after advanced heuristic methods had been around for a while.

That's not really what I meant. I mean in the cases where such 'super-malware' has been clearly identified and plucked apart by security researchers, could your average commercial AV kill it? I did some googling and found out for myself that apparently, they do:

https://www.symantec.com/security_response/writeup.jsp?docid...

https://www.microsoft.com/security/portal/threat/encyclopedi...

Oh in the case where they're very publicly known they will, even if the US government wanted to suppress it, they do not have power over all AV companies. So it would be damaging to those companies.

And in any event, when we find out about nefarious state-sponsored software it's almost always super old.

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