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<blockquote data-quote="motox781" data-source="post: 984702" data-attributes="member: 35376">Thanks for all the replies. Please stay on the topic.[USER=11847]@JoyousBudweiser[/USER] brought up a good comment about &quot;Social Engineering&quot;.I guess he/she means (in general) phishing threats are much higher today than in the past, with the expansion of social media and cell phones in everyone&#039;s pocket. If that&#039;s case, then the core premise of an Antivirus does very little (unless that link contains malware, which going back to my original post...I make the case that infection rates have plummeted), considering how difficult it is to protect against ever changing phishing/scam threats (vendors seem to be struggling with phishing/infected link detection, at least on my devices <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite110" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" />).- Spam- Hacked accounts- Phishing calls/scams- Phishing/infected links via texts/social mediaSo, should we focus on phishing/suspicious link protection more than malware detection rate, if the attack vector is shifting? If so, is static malware/firewall testing not as relevant today as it once was? And if that is true, why do we still place so much importance on it and less on phishing/suspicious link detection?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="motox781, post: 984702, member: 35376"] Thanks for all the replies. Please stay on the topic. [USER=11847]@JoyousBudweiser[/USER] brought up a good comment about "Social Engineering". I guess he/she means (in general) phishing threats are much higher today than in the past, with the expansion of social media and cell phones in everyone's pocket. If that's case, then the core premise of an Antivirus does very little (unless that link contains malware, which going back to my original post...I make the case that infection rates have plummeted), considering how difficult it is to protect against ever changing phishing/scam threats (vendors seem to be struggling with phishing/infected link detection, at least on my devices ;)). - Spam - Hacked accounts - Phishing calls/scams - Phishing/infected links via texts/social media So, should we focus on phishing/suspicious link protection more than malware detection rate, if the attack vector is shifting? If so, is static malware/firewall testing not as relevant today as it once was? And if that is true, why do we still place so much importance on it and less on phishing/suspicious link detection? [/QUOTE]

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