{"id":2158,"date":"2017-01-29T01:38:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-29T00:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/?p=2158"},"modified":"2022-04-06T01:12:02","modified_gmt":"2022-04-05T23:12:02","slug":"ex-mozilla-developer-ripp-of-your-av-software-except-microsofts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2017\/01\/29\/ex-mozilla-developer-ripp-of-your-av-software-except-microsofts\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex Mozilla developer: Ripp of your AV-Software from Windows &ndash; except Microsoft&rsquo;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; display: inline;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.borncity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Schutz.jpg\" width=\"40\" height=\"47\" \/><em>Antivirus software vendors are terrible; don't buy antivirus software, and uninstall it if you already have it (except for Microsoft's) \u2013 <\/em>says former Mozilla Engineer Robert\u00a0 O'Callahan.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I was advocating long years to avoid installing third party antivirus software on Windows. Microsoft provides Microsoft Security Essentials and Windows Defender (from Windows 8 upward) as a basic protection. During my activities as a community moderator in Microsoft Answers Forums I came across many cases, where third party AV software was a show stopper for (feature) upgrades and also some cumulative updates. Also AV software is causing many damages in Windows 10. Another aspect, I mentioned within my German blog post <a href=\"http:\/\/www.borncity.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/05\/windows-10-welche-antivirus-lsung-soll-ich-einsetzen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Windows 10: Welche Antivirus-L\u00f6sung soll ich einsetzen?<\/a> was security. While third party vendors promising to secure a system, their software often opens critical security holes within the system. I've blogged about several incidents in the past.<\/p>\n<p>Now Robert\u00a0 O'Callahan wrote a blog post <a href=\"http:\/\/robert.ocallahan.org\/2017\/01\/disable-your-antivirus-software-except.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Disable Your Antivirus Software (Except Microsoft's)<\/a>, outlining, what security experts know but won't discuss in public. Here is, what O'Callahan pointed out:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>AV vendors don't follow standard security practices<\/em>, so at the end of the day, many security issues affecting the AV itself. Tavis Ormandy from Google has published several critical vulnerabilities in AV software during the last 2 years.<\/li>\n<li><em>AV products poison the software ecosystem because their invasive and poorly-implemented code makes it difficult for browser vendors and other developers to improve their own security.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Software vendors know these facts, but won't speak about that, because they depends on the cooperation with AV vendors. Also Justin Schuh, a security engineer for Google Chrome, has also blasted AV vendors in a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/justinschuh\/status\/802491391121260544\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">long line of tweets<\/a>. Further details may be read in this <a href=\"http:\/\/robert.ocallahan.org\/2017\/01\/disable-your-antivirus-software-except.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">blog post<\/a> and at bleeping computer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Antivirus software vendors are terrible; don't buy antivirus software, and uninstall it if you already have it (except for Microsoft's) \u2013 says former Mozilla Engineer Robert\u00a0 O'Callahan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[580,2],"tags":[646,69,194],"class_list":["post-2158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security","category-windows","tag-antivirus","tag-security","tag-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}