[loufe]

I am not an IT professional but a bit confused by how many completely negative views there are here on AV use. I have a NOD32 license and at least twice per month a url is blocked while browsing in an unobtrusive way by the software, which makes sense as may have contained malicious JS or something. Maybe it would've been caught by ublock afterwards, or may have been caught by MS defender as well, but I like the assurance provided. You can argue that I'm browsing in an unsafe manner but I doubt many of you restrict your browsing to strictly "safe" chunks of the internet.

[lpcvoid]

The point is that the AV does not do much here. The security model should be proper sandboxing within the browser, along with block lists that get used by ublock origin if you wish. A third party program running alongside your browser, inspecting the URLs you visit (possibly then via TLS certificate MITM?), is just a weird way to think about security in my opinion. Not even talking about the potential new attack surface that may be introduced in some way.