See #5 here: https://www.kuketz-blog.de/truegerische-sicherheit-virenscanner-apps-sind-schlichtweg-ueberfluessig/. Most commercial antivirus contain spyware themselves. It’s an industry-wide problem. This is problem 1 with commercial AV. Problem 2 is that the AVs run highly privileged and are often badly secured themselves. So you open up security holes just by running an AV.
Problem 3 is most malware devs ensure first that no antivirus detects their stuff before spreading it. So don’t run commercial AV on your own system. Use virustotal.com and common sense
See #5 here: https://www.kuketz-blog.de/truegerische-sicherheit-virenscanner-apps-sind-schlichtweg-ueberfluessig/. Most commercial antivirus contain spyware themselves. It’s an industry-wide problem. This is problem 1 with commercial AV. Problem 2 is that the AVs run highly privileged and are often badly secured themselves. So you open up security holes just by running an AV.
Problem 3 is most malware devs ensure first that no antivirus detects their stuff before spreading it. So don’t run commercial AV on your own system. Use virustotal.com and common sense