Microsoft asserts that Windows 10 is “the most secure Windows ever.” Apple “designed macOS with advanced technologies that work together to constantly monitor, encrypt, update — and ultimately keep your Mac safer.” iPhones and iPads “stop malicious software before it can ever get a foothold.” Android security chief Adrian Ludwig recently stated “I don’t think 99 percent plus of users get a benefit from anti-virus apps.”
Are independent antivirus programs now superfluous anachronisms, unnecessary residuals of a sophisticated protection racket?