A Poem on AVs

[ifacedown]

The AV Oxymorons

In the world of technology
Programmers are evolving
Some make viruses
Which are more accurately called malwares
And others choose to combat them
Thus the existence of antiviruses
But others make malwares
Just to support their antivirus
And keep it going on to business

Many are paid
Many are free
Almost all promise to be light
But instead put your computing performance down
Most have identity shields
Yet still many send out
Your personal data without your explicit knowledge

Their websites have beautiful faces
Of ladies from their Support Team
But when you contact them
There are so much delays
Some even do not answer back

They promise to keep out 0-day attacks
But test them a little
And you make your system vulnerable
To damage yet to be seen

They keep changing their GUI
But sometimes failed to improve their products
Instead they rely heavily
On marketing skills
And paying 'Independent Labs'

Some let their signatures and engines be used
By others who could not make their own
Yet some manage to improve upon them
And even beat the original

They promise to keep out hackers from you
But how could I believe them
If their products are very vulnerable
To patching and cracking
So many of the paid AVs
Could forever be used freely

Some choose their products to be silent
On performing its protection tasks
Others are too noisy and obtrusive
Few quarantine files without your knowledge
Thinking they are infallible
But later make your system corrupt

Others focus on security
While others are heavy
Because they are bloatwares
With functions not related to protection

They promise fast detection and repair
But full scans take forever
And hog down your HDD
CPU and memory to waste

Some have powerful heuristics
To the extent of sandboxing
Not just unknown suspicious files
But also legit Windows System files

These observations are just a few
From what you could see
From the products that
Promise you security

These things are living
And evolving oxymorons
Yet we still fancy them
And wait on how they evolve
Yearly on their oxymoron traits

But I choose still to keep them
For at least they do something
About fighting malwares
To a little extent
Yes to a little

 

[Behold Eck]

Good stuff.

Regards Eck

 

[NullPointerException]

Not true. Good poem, but not true. It's a common myth that antiviruses don't do anything. Not true.

 

[ifacedown]

Not true. Good poem, but not true. It's a common myth that antiviruses don't do anything. Not true.

I only implied in the poem that most AV really don't measure up to their promises. In the last paragraph, I said I will keep using them for at least they do something against malware:

But I choose still to keep them
For at least they do something
About fighting malwares
To a little extent
Yes to a little

 

[NullPointerException]

I only implied in the poem that most AV really don't measure up to their promises. In the last paragraph, I said I will keep using them for at least they do something against malware:

But I choose still to keep them
For at least they do something
About fighting malwares
To a little extent
Yes to a little

I read every letter of this poem, but I am pretty sure they do it more than a little. I agree and know some AVs sell your information, but most reputable do not.

 

[Dubseven]

I read every letter of this poem, but I am pretty sure they do it more than a little. I agree and know some AVs sell your information, but most reputable do not.

Nope
Some easy to close make lot of AVs vulnérable and nobody care when you send them mails about that.
Everything they do good, is to make the best attractive GUI for the marketing.

I'm pretty sûre that they keep all the money for the design team.

 

[NullPointerException]

Nope
Some easy to close make lot of AVs vulnérable and nobody care when you send them mails about that.
Everything they do good, is to make the best attractive GUI for the marketing.

I'm pretty sûre that they keep all the money for the design team.

Imagine a world without antiviruses.