[jpcosta]

I completely agree with you, I find this "disable antivirus" to be such a bad advice! Yes, it may work for tech savvy or security aware person. If you know what you're doing you're much less likely to get into problems. It won't work for general public though.

And the argument being made that "for example, see bugs in AV products listed in Google's Project Zero. These bugs indicate that not only do these products open many attack vectors" could be made for any piece of software your install.

[raesene6]

Actually I don't think they could. A-V products inevitably insist on running with very high privileges on target machines, restricting the OS' ability to mitigate any vulnerabilities.

A-V products also have been shown be research from Google Project Zero to be doing very dangerous things (like running a local web server you can send commands to that are executed on the device).

When you combine high-privileged code with dangerous practices you get a very nasty set of risks that aren't present with most other software.

As there is an alternative that doesn't have similar problems (MS Defender) it seems sensible to recommend it.