L.S.
Just re-entering the discussion here. I am not interested in what the "man in the street" thinks, what mass media holds or what hypercorrectness or con-sensus sort of orders me to do, I am only interested in the "real technical facts, that what I see technically analyzed and can grasp as being malcode". And researchers from clearskysec for instance for me at least are authorities among the best you can have in the field. And it does not interest me one bit who the malceants are, whether they are white hat, grey hat, script kiddy, cybercriminal, cyber-army spooks or whatever, whether they from earth or even another planet....
I am only interested in an AV that stops them all, the vendor driven scam and ad-crap, the state-driven astroturf fraud, the so-called Bundestrojan (wherever it stems from, in whatsoever country it was developed or put together). I want an AV that, that as best as it can, protects me against all digital threats period, and not let something pass "under the AV radar".
I have reason to believe Kaspersky free AV is not doing that, or I am not being told it does so, so I stick to avast, together with the routines of updating, patching and making back-ups (not in the cloud, as some non-public-clouds I do not trust fully security-wise as well).
So I know we live in very difficult and dangerous times to find ourselves protected in the malware-landscape. Agree that complicating factors here are fake news, desinformation and a "waning" trust problem.
Keep vigilant folks, keep vigilant ye all, keep vigilant avast team!
polonus (volunteer and
independant website security analyst and website error-hunter)
