Is the age of seatbelts also over? People die in car accidents by the thousands despite using seatbelts, so they must be useless.
The article almost could've been written in the nineties before the commercial malware arrived, but when polymorphic malware became the standard.
The age of AV is unfortunately anything but over as long as people wish to run software they want to, e.g. unlike the iOS. AV is a good filter for most of the malware that you might accidentally bump into, but that's it. You're silly if you don't have one, and you're silly if you think that you're totally safe with it.
The article almost could've been written in the nineties before the commercial malware arrived, but when polymorphic malware became the standard.
The age of AV is unfortunately anything but over as long as people wish to run software they want to, e.g. unlike the iOS. AV is a good filter for most of the malware that you might accidentally bump into, but that's it. You're silly if you don't have one, and you're silly if you think that you're totally safe with it.