This is a claim I find hard to believe, but worth investigating further for the sake of curiosity. Anti-virus has been for years the primary or essential way for PC/Mac owners to protect their devices. Even though not sufficient, but anti-virus represents the basic step for regular computer users and large corporations to implement in terms of IT security.
According to an alternative study, anti-viruses maybe well overrated. This is what Ars Technica’s Robert O’Callahan, who is a former Mozilla engineer explains in this article. O’Callahan continues to add the best solution in place of anti-virus is Microsoft’s Windows defenders if user(s) keeps updating Windows 10 regularly, unless you are on Windows XP or something, where even he admits you might need some third-part help. He recommends that anti-virus vendors are terrible and not to buy them. This report deserves some attentions and further studies to ensure if it’s founded. Otherwise, this could be catastrophic if many choose to believe this claim.
I agree somewhere to this article as most of the common people who are not much aware of the cyber security feels that the Anti-Virus is the only robust solution for security available and if they have antivirus on their PC they are safe from all type of attacks.This was a conception even faced by me when I used the PC for first time and the dealer recommended me to use Anti-virus for sure else I may end damaging my system.I never cared about patching and not surfing to unsafe websites