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Are third party consumer AVs a dying market?
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<blockquote data-quote="Brahman" data-source="post: 984619" data-attributes="member: 11847"><p>There is not much money to be made by attacking a normal windows consumer, most users have their important data on cloud, so there is minimal loss and a fresh install will not hurt that much. Apart from that with the inception of secure browsers like chrome, edge etc phishing and infection from net too have reduced considerably. But on the other hand, if you can compramise an Android/ iOS device it will hurt and there is a lot at stake. So most malware makers are now concentrating on those sectores. I live in India and I can see a huge increase in financial fraud by making fraud phone call, identifying as bank call centre employee and asking for credit card/ debit card information, taking advantage of uninformed people, all these requires no programming capabilities and promises easy money. "Social engineering" is the buzz word nowadays. So all in all the focus has shifted i would say.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brahman, post: 984619, member: 11847"] There is not much money to be made by attacking a normal windows consumer, most users have their important data on cloud, so there is minimal loss and a fresh install will not hurt that much. Apart from that with the inception of secure browsers like chrome, edge etc phishing and infection from net too have reduced considerably. But on the other hand, if you can compramise an Android/ iOS device it will hurt and there is a lot at stake. So most malware makers are now concentrating on those sectores. I live in India and I can see a huge increase in financial fraud by making fraud phone call, identifying as bank call centre employee and asking for credit card/ debit card information, taking advantage of uninformed people, all these requires no programming capabilities and promises easy money. "Social engineering" is the buzz word nowadays. So all in all the focus has shifted i would say. [/QUOTE]
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