In 2017, journalists reported that Kaspersky Lab’s AV software was compromised by hackers out of Russia. It is embarrassing for an AV company to inadvertently delete all of a client’s computer files, but it’s another thing entirely when a bad actor gets involved. In these situations and others, security experts note that computers would have been more protected had AV software not be installed in the first place. In 2010, McAfee reportedly made a similar mistake, rendering even more computers inoperable. For example, in 2015 the free AV software Panda Antivirus mistakenly flagged itself as malware, and caused core functionalities to its users’ computers to be destroyed. Ormandy has identified countless bugs ranging from the sinister to the embarrassing in AV software throughout his research. Tavis Ormandy is a Google Security researcher who prods commercial software for vulnerabilities. Meaning, if the AV is compromised or goes rogue at any point, it can cause immense damage because of its unlimited access to your system. Installing AV software requires giving a third party system unlimited access to your computer or network servers and whatever information is stored on it. Antivirus creates an unrestricted backdoor to your computer In this blog post, we explain the inherent fallacy of using AV software as a security tool, and introduce some of the enhanced security measures we have taken to ensure that personal data stored in our SecureVault remains protected. Today, antivirus software (AV) or more precisely, antimalware software, is more sophisticated, and some security experts will say, begrudgingly, that tools like Windows Defender are “ mostly good enough” for defending home PCs, where usually little protected information is stored.īut for TrueVault, “mostly good enough” security is inadequate for protecting our client’s sensitive data.
Clicking it takes you to a web page where the company tries to upsell you on the latest enhancements to their product. By Sara Kassabian/ Published on November 6, 2018Įveryone remembers working on the home desktop and seeing the alert pop-up in the right-hand corner of your screen: time to upgrade your (Name Brand) antivirus software.
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