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From a performance impact standpoint, based on just one test suite, it is the worst on the market. https://www.av-comparatives.org/tests/performance-test-october-2019/ (and I linked to the same article in your parents comment...)

Avira and Bitdefender manage to rank in the top tier of performance impact and protection every time I check. Both offer free products, and Bitdefender Free is considerably less annoying, in my past experiences. Free antivirus is actually one of the places where market competition forced a bunch of them to clean up their acts and offer a good non invasive product. Avira still has ads, but if you wanted one product on your pc and one on a home server, it might make sense to use two vendors products.
https://www.bitdefender.com/solutions/free.html https://www.avira.com/en/free-antivirus-windows

For one off system scans, besides the two mentioned above; ESET, F-Secure, Kaspersky, Panda (and Emsisoft which has Avira and Bitdefender built in) all offer great spot check products. ADWCleaner is indispensable.

It's interesting that "anti-virus" has now become the free component in suites. You pay for things like VPN, password management, and home network security. Kaspersky goes a step further and offers VPN and password management in a free tier. https://usa.kaspersky.com/free-antivirus

> Of porn viewing done by minors 22% are done by children under 10 (3)

> 3: https://www.magonlinelibrary.com/doi/abs/10.12968/bjsn.2017.12.7.326

I found this fairly dubious, and followed through with this and got to the study[0]. It uses [1] as its source. That source is a private antivirus company (bitdefender), and they don't quote any sources for those claims, but luckily they offer a solution:

> Use security solutions with Parental Control to watch over kids online. Features such as Bitdefender Parental Control block inappropriate content, restrict Web access between certain hours and helps parents remotely monitor their children”s online activity

I haven't followed through on the other statistics you quoted, but that seems like some major corporate BS you're basing your argument on there.

> The research was conducted by Bitdefender in September 2016 covering 706 users of Bitdefender's security solutions.

Oh okay, that about settles it.

[0] https://sci-hub.se/https://doi.org/10.12968/bjsn.2017.12.7.326

[1] https://www.bitdefender.com/blog/hotforsecurity/one-in-10-visitors-of-porn-sites-is-under-10-years-old

On the one hand, that's sad. On the other hand, what a great way for both parents and children to learn about the idiocy that is IoT in the Clown. And oh boy do people need to learn!

It could be worse. Imagine that the children had to hand over private information to use the toy, and for that entire dataset to be leaked because the toymaker knows nothing about security. Oh, that already happened: https://www.bitdefender.com/en-gb/blog/hotforsecurity/vtech-toymaker-hacked-millions-of-families-have-their-personal-info-exposed

Or imagine the toy had cameras and microphones uploading continuously to the Clown, then "hackers" released all of it.

Seems to only affect some users. Also, not claiming it was on purpose or with malicious intent. I’m sure it is an unintentional bug.

But, it also goes to show that Apple can tweak your settings at will, ignoring your prior preferences, which I think we can all agree should not happen.

It is also not the first time this happens:

- iOS 18.3 https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/01/ios-18-3-macos-15-3-updates-switch-to-enabling-apple-intelligence-by-default/

- iOS 17 https://www.bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/hotforsecurity/ios-17-update-secretly-changed-your-privacy-settings-heres-how-to-set-them-back

> Under his leadership, the company has sold more than seven million hardware wallets worldwide, maintaining a perfect security record with no successful breaches of their devices.

yeah uhhhhhh, what about all of their newsletter subs and device sales shipping data though?

I wonder if he got one of the threatening ransom letters in the mail and didn't pay because they said it was a scam?

https://www.bitdefender.com/en-au/blog/hotforsecurity/hacker-publishes-stolen-email-and-mailing-addresses-of-270000-ledger-cryptocurrency-wallet-users

https://old.reddit.com/r/ledgerwalletleak/

Employers in the U.S. are expecting to see domestic IP addresses.

A laptop farm hosts the corporate laptop (domestically) that is sent to the remote worker. Hardware is provided to work the power remotely, along with all other functions.

https://www.bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/hotforsecurity/us-woman-years-federal-prison-laptop-farm-n-korean-it-workers

https://sashaingber.substack.com/p/the-23-year-old-who-infiltrated-a

https://cyberscoop.com/doj-indicts-five-in-north-korean-fake-it-worker-scheme/

https://therecord.media/arizona-woman-pleads-guilty-north-korean-laptop-farm