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How AV can open you to attacks that otherwise wouldn’t be possible Newly AVGater flaw provided key ingrediant for hacker to hijack computer. Antivirus, in many cases, makes us safer on the Internet. Other times, it opens us to attacks that otherwise wouldn't be possible. On Friday, a researcher documented an example of the latter—a vulnerability he found in about a dozen name-brand AV programs that allows attackers who already have a toehold on a targeted computer to gain complete system control. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/11/how-av-can-open-you-to-attacks-that-otherwise-wouldnt-be-possible/
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