Rant.

Seeing someone using Norton.

@thmnmlst yep me too.

If you browse carefully and not click malicious links or install crappy software you should be fine without ANY antivirus.

Besides Norton, you have to add Avira and McAfee.

@tild3 What about: A website exploited a security vulnerability in a software you have installed, like probatly Adobe Flash, Java(for Applets in browsers, nit the normal Java), and so on. Or, for example, your PDF reader is exploitable, an AV can safe you from malicious code in a PDF file. If you don't want to use an Antivirus, use Linux.

@Gatgeagent mmmmmmm McAfee triggers me so much

@Gatgeagent I'm sure such a site would be classified as malicious link.

Can't wait to read this rant to my coworkers. I work in Symantec 😁

As a fellow colleague I approve 🍻

@tild3 Every site *can* contain a vulnerability, where a hacker/cracker, would properly be able to change the front end code.

@Gatgeagent Java for applets is now impossible. NPAPI is dead, therefore applets are dead.

Is Norton bad?

@MrDhont Symantec has 11,000 employees and is specialized in AV since the early 90th. No idea why some ranters think they are the better experts...

@varundey The "someone" using norton is me. Your coworkers will also love this rant: https://www.devrant.io/rants/381078

@DivByZero the Norton is a whole separate project of Symantec and I am not associated with it as of now. Also I'm a Linux user so yeah it was pretty funny :D

Using ubuntu with no antivirus installed :O