TechRepublic: Why antivirus programs have become the problem, not the solution

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Staggeringly poor programming and security practices have made antivirus programs a gaping security hole in millions of computers.

By James Sanders
June 30, 2016

This week, Tavis Ormandy of Google's Project Zero security research team disclosed a major vulnerability in security products by Symantec (and their consumer-targeted Norton brand) which arguably make users of these products less secure than they would be without an antivirus program at all.

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