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    16 hours ago

    Anti-virus is not going to stop you from stupidity. You classic “Anti-virus” won’t stop anything more than run of the mill simple stuff.

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      15 hours ago

      Most of the time that’s what people need an antivirus for, most attacks the average person will suffer will be some script that’s easily caught by the antivirus.

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        If the script doesn’t have permission to do anything it doesn’t matter. See Android as an example.