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Except that's malicious to a much greater extent -- an extent that ought to catch the attention of anti-virus software makers.


I don’t see how antivirus software completely failing to protect its users from “easy” attacks (rogue extension drops) should inspire any confidence they can protect you from more sophisticated attacks. Oh yeah this gun is useless now, but wait till they roll in with tanks!

Never mind the entire idea of antivirus software is completely ridiculous from security PoV and basically a scam to have people pay for a false sense of security.




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