Anti-virus software on your PC is a bad idea, warns a former Mozilla engineer. Anti-virus software on your PC is a bad idea, warns a former Mozilla engineer. O’ Callahan has a blog post explaining why he thinks anti-virus software is a terrible idea. “Antivirus software vendors are terrible; don’t buy antivirus software, and uninstall it if you already have it”, explained O’Callahan in his post. As the piece in Ars Technica explains, anti-virus software will “hooks itself into other pieces of software on your computer,” including the OS kernel.

Source: Indian Express January 30, 2017 14:18 UTC