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Comment by tardo99 | Hacker News Reader
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tardo99
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Antivirus software is basically a scam.
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paulpauper
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ironically it injects crap into your computer so that you cannot uninstall it fully, to prevent people from renewing the free trial.
raverbashing
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Though the "hard to uninstall" part is exactly so that malware can't uninstall it easily.
indigodaddy
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Yeah, on Mac/Windows, I just install the free version of Malwarebytes and do a full scan occasionally...
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