With Windows having a built in basic Antivirus and various web browsers having some basic scanner built in.
How will Anti-virus companies survive in 2016?
>>54800791
I'd say that most users aren't aware of the built-in antivirus so they install a third party one anyway.
One word: Enterprise.
>>54800791
>anti virus
>hardly finds any viruses
yeah, I'd say they've got nothing to worry about
>>54800976
>Not finding any virus means there are viruses hiding
>>54800791
>Trusting MICROSOFT of all people with your data
You do realise that if antivirus companies fall, there will be nothing stopping Microsoft from bringing the win10 keyloggers back? They just need to add an exception in the antivirus.
>>54801240
Umm, what? Windows 10 is still a botnet but antivirus companies can't classify it as malware because users willingly accept the EULA giving Microsoft full ownership of their computer.
i have clamav installed on my centos machine because i got cucked by pajeets last month. one of the retarded php scripts has exploit it seems they uploaded some shell code.
>>54800791
I always think windows antivirus is nothing more than a program to scan all your local archives to later send data to Microsoft about what you have in your hard drive. The idea is so simple, is genious!
The "protection" thing is secondary.
Do people actually uses anti-viruses anymore, lmao?
Anti-viruses are more annoying to deal with than the fucking viruses themselves these days.
Just don't use internet explorer and you've prevented 99.9% of web based virus'
Nothing will protect the stupid people from clicking on my_hot_sexy_neighbor_picture_nude_not_a_virus_.jpg.exe and clicking okay on UAC.
Fear.
Make users think they need expensive software (like they did in the past) to protect them from all sorts of obscure threats.
After all there is enough stupid out there to make a profit.
Antivirus software are pretty much a viruses themselves.
>>54800791
Been using MSE/Defender since Win7 era, im not going back to Nod32 bloat
>>54800791
>using WD
>threat detected
>click to fix it, it says it is fixed
>still runs in the memory
Windows Administration 101
>cmd: net user administrator /active:yes
>cmd: netplwiz
>set a password for administrator account
>make your account type a 'local account' instead of 'local administrator'
>optional - uncheck 'require username and password for login'
>optional - put your local account name and password for automatic login
>set UAC to maximum
>logout and login to administrator account just once so that windows will create all the configurations and user profile - u can logout as soon as u see the desktop
>now every time anything tries to change any system settings you need to enter administrator password on prompt just like on any unix-like system
Now basic protection from 99,9% of malware which hijacks user data or tries to lock the system and want u to pay for unlock
>control panel -> system -> additional settings -> performance -> DEP - check the second option and make it active for all software and not only core windows components
Do a basic configuration of Windows firewall. You can use simplified GUI like TinyWall to do this.
You don't need anything except core Windows components to protect yourself from malware.
>>54800791
>With Windows having a built in basic Antivirus and various web browsers having some basic scanner built in.
They have plenty of customers in their biggest sector, GRC. Government and corporate have governance, risk management and compliance policies that require AV across their enterprise. It's a holistic approach that assures when the receptionist clicks the cryptolocker because she's making 11/hr and is dumb as a box of rocks there's some protection in place to keep the NAS from being fucked.
HBSS requires the use of McAfee EPO by all DHS components. Everyone hates McAfee because it's a steaming pile of shit but the spec must be complied with. There are other tools like tanium, forescout, and innerview that supplement AV in the threat model.
The US government is very serious about security these days. Perhaps it's late and some agencies don't take it as seriously as they should (OPM), but it is a huge concern.
The old C&A process had applications get vulnerability scanned at ATO, then yearly. Now with the new CDM requirements they do it all the time, non-stop, as a service, and report up the chain monthly.
AV will be here for a while just for the government.
>>54801493
Same for a lot of trojans. Those are still classified. When will you freetards just accept that the real reason it's not malware is because you're all fooling yourselves with your tinfoil hats? The lame excuses are getting old.
>>54802410
Good post anon, learned something
>>54801907
They probably make the viruses themselves so they can still be relevant and make sales.
It's a cruel world
>>54802979
>They probably make the viruses themselves so they can still be relevant and make sales.
>It's a cruel world
>Send this to 10 friends or a virus will erase facebook
I know you like the facebooks.
-Grandma
>>54800791
Anti-virus are among the top 100 of all Android apps. I think they'll be able to delude normies into buying them for PCs for a long time.
>>54803521
>AV on your phone
>>54800791
Microsoft is part of NSA's mass surveillance program "PRISM":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_(surveillance_program)
Microsoft informs the NSA about bugs before fixing them:
https://archive.is/OBGB1
Microsoft openly offeres cloud data to support PRISM:
https://archive.is/tW6fu
Microsoft has backdoored its disk encryption:
https://archive.is/2XIvX
https://archive.is/qLRZx
Windows snoops on the users' files, text input, voice input,
location, contacts, calendar records and web browsing history,
even after related settings are turned off:
https://archive.is/thsGd
https://archive.is/sz1nt
https://archive.is/g3QdQ
https://archive.is/ko469
https://archive.is/l6pmO
https://archive.is/zK93U
Micrcrosoft automatically downloads Windows 10 on PCs running
Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 (between 3.5GB and 6GB), even if
users have not opted-in:
http://archive.is/CEvKh
Windows 10 scans for illegal/pirated software:
https://archive.is/vhjwm
https://archive.is/2jehd
https://archive.is/KQsBh
Microsoft proudly presents surveillance statistics:
https://archive.is/MB0Yy
> Over 82 billion photos viewed.
> Gamers spent over 4 billion hours playing PC games.
> 44.5 billion minutes/month spent in Microsoft Edge.
> Over 2.5 billion questions asked of Cortana since launch.
> Windows 10 now active on over 200 million devices.
>>54803670
what are you hiding?
>>54803608
https://play.google.com/store/apps/collection/topselling_free
Check it out and weep.
>File Cleaner
>Anti-virus
>Speed booster
>Battery booster
even
>Flashlight apps
>>54803608
Not a bad thing for normies. At least that thing warns them that ccff7743ransomware.apk isn't that youtube video of that puppy that they just tried to download.
