Anti-virus is bad, dead (again) and worse, its corpse is poisoning the ecosystem of good software.
There is, according to former Mozilla developer Robert O’Callahan, negligible evidence that anti-malware software produced by third-parties provides any additional security. His arguments have spread from his blog to Twitter and then to IT news websites like IT Pro and The Register.
Is anti-virus useless? Is it worth your time and possibly money?