[Flick Lives]

Antivirus and network scanning provides users the necessary feedback needed to identify security breaches. Only FOOLS believe their security is 100%, requiring no need for security reviews. At a minimum if you’re not running AV, scan vulnerabilities and exploits and scan often. Like daily. Hourly is good. Real-time is best.

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You can run your AV scan every second for all the good it will do you. The problem inherent in AV software is it only knows about known viruses. The next new zero day released it’s useless.

[Up Yours Marxists]

That may be true. However, outdated antivirus is better than NO antivirus at all. Only a fool would walk into an Ebola clinic without a bio suit.

[dayglored]

> The problem inherent in AV software is it only knows about known viruses. The next new zero day released it's useless.

Not entirely true. Some AV software runs heuristics that look for patterns of software behavior that might be dangerous, even if they don't recognize the virus because it's a new one.

Of course the problems with heuristic approaches are:

• They produce false positives in legit software.
• They greatly slow down the computer, often making it unusable.