On 2014-07-30 19:39, Shadow  wrote:

>
> No idea how much of it is true.
>
>
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/07/29/antivirus_blood_splattered_as_biz_warne
d_audit_or_die/
>
> "If your application runs with the highest privileges, installs kernel
> drivers, a packet filter and tries to handle anything your computer
> may do ... your attack surface dramatically increased," Koret said in
> a presentation at Syscan 360. (Slides here).
>
> "AV engines make your computer more vulnerable with a varying degree
> of performance penalty [and] is as vulnerable to zero day attacks as
> the applications it tries to protect from. [It] can even lower the
> operating system exploiting mitigations.
>
> "Some AV companies don't give a f**k about security in their
> products."
>
>  []'s

Interesting indeed; thanks for posting this.

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