Am I the only one who understands what a scam anti-virus/anti-malware are? Ya know it’s not just these tools, but a lot of the VPN providers out there too. It’s one thing when your providing a genuine service that’s advertising a degree of pseudo-anonymity, protection from malicious ISP actors your basically forced to go through due to duopolies and shitty politicians, etc, but another when your lying through your teeth and spying/tracking the very customers you sold yourself as protecting.

Anti-virus is very much like that particularly where Microsoft is concerned. They produce a buggy insecure product, then basically make up a ‘solution’ that isn’t effective rather than issuing a recall and fixing design flaws.

Then bringing it to GNU/Linux serves no point other than to satisfy organizational/institutional requirements and probably justify charging some fee or creating barriers for end-users to use GNU/Linux on corporate and school networks (think colleges requiring you to install special software that checks to make sure your system has anti-virus on it, in theory to prevent viruses from spreading via the school/corporate network… but the software required and the software to check BOTH are malicious and of which neither have source code available to the end user so who knows what they’re even doing exactly… not to mention in practice this is only an issue for Microsoft Windows users, but Microsoft wants this nuisance to apply to GNU/Linux users as they don’t want GNU/Linux to be perceived as easier to use, which it is… in the past schools have often just whitelisted GNU/Linux users from having to install such software as viruses don’t genuinely exist outside of impractical demonstrations on GNU/Linux).