Where's the poll option ''I don't run any realtime AV at all'' ?
Iops and cpu hogging malware, that's what antivirus is
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AV free for a while now, recently did a full scan with Kaspersky after a year or 2, only false positives.
Not to mention a huge annoyance if you need any security related work, all AV's really trip on tools like Cain and Abel or when scanning PCAP files with SNORT... They hate crypto miners, they hate ''hacktools'' and ''cracks''. Hell, I remember bloody Avira locking me out of my hosts file or preventing access to DISM to create an image with Macrium.
But mainly, they hog CPU time ( eg avast loves taking up a whole thread of cpu time when downloading a game on steam, it limited my download speeds from 50+ mb to 15 ish mb/sec.) , and slows down copying stuff (especially loads of smaller files), opening folders with huge ammounts of files, and other i/o actions.
Bloody Windows Defender also falseley flagged my own applications once as a virus after I used a confuser on it (to prevent reverse engineering my source code). It learned later that it wasn't, but we've had multiple instances at our company where Windows effin defender saw our own software as malware.
Because of company policy (quite obvious) and the security risks we will keep using AV's at the office, but at home: screw antivirus.
I've gone through all of them: Essentials, Defender, Avira, AVG, Avast, Kaspersky, Eset, F-secure, all absolute rubbish for performance, it clearly goes at the cost of hash rates, download rates, IOPS, sequential reads and writes, game performance, etc...
