"the solution to that was antivirus software"
How well did that work out?
How well did that work out?
Classic old school antivirus? Not great, but did catch some things.
Modern EDR systems? They work extremely well when properly set up and configured across a fleet of devices as it's looking for behavior and patterns instead of just going off of known malware signatures.
They’re also not exactly risk free - [0]
[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_CrowdStrike-related_IT_...
... because it's the only thing that somewhat works. From my personal experience, the heuristic and "AI-based" approaches lead to so many false positives, it's not even worth pursuing them.
The best AV remains and will always be common sense.