Antivirus products increase a computer's attack surface and may even lower operating system protections, a security researcher claims.
It's generally accepted that antivirus programs provide a necessary protection layer, but organizations should audit such products before deploying them on their systems because many of them contain serious vulnerabilities, a researcher warned.
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