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Some of us don't open HTML e-mail or click on every ad banner they see. Some don't even see ads!

An AV is a waste of system resources unless you're a fool that's easily convinced into opening things you shouldn't.

>An AV is a waste of system resources unless you're a fool that's easily convinced into opening things you shouldn't.

Did Malware write this? lol

All I use is an adblocker and I've not dealt with malware in over a decade. Turns out if you stay away from shady places on the Web and don't click everything shoved in your face, you can keep a clean machine.

Meanwhile, I know plenty of people WITH antivirus and other shit with utterly compromised and slow shit. We can blame the user behavior instead of the antivirus, naturally, but how do we know the AV is protecting the user and not luring them into a sense of security so that they do risky things?

I'm clearly doing something right.

If ads and email were the only vectors of attack, I'd have a much easier job.

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