[hutzlibu]

"Which then conditions people to just click past the warning, at that point you might as well not even run the AV at all"

anectode: a girl in my student flat wanted to give me some file and copied it to her usb-stick. But as she plugged her stick in, a antivirus warning popped up and said very clearly INFECTION DETECTED. But she just clicked it away and said it does that all the time since weeks ...

Wait what?!?

And she was a student (for high school teacher), so supposed to be not stupid. But in this case the antivirus was actually one of the better once which mostly only said something if there was something. But to her it had the same meaning as "update me please". Not something to be bothered with her now, as her task was to copy something to the USB stick ...

So yes, definitely also bad conditioned, but also plain stupid. Or overburdened.

So for those people, antivirus (wheter from the os or third party) which really blocks stupid things and scans everything, make sense. And there are a lot of those people ... in my example it was someone who grew up with computers, but there are still many around who had to learn it much later in life. And they just click onto everything.