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by tored 1559 days ago
Agree, but doesn’t that mean that heuristic based AV is useless, only creates annoyance by flagging legit software , when a list of known malware would be good enough if response time to add to that list is high enough.
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Heuristics are often good. The very basic one "has a significant number of users ever seen this file before" is both annoying for development and probably the best possible first line of defence for larger companies.