Do Antiviruses really protect our computers as much as we are told?

Antiviruses are encoding programs which eliminate any error or leakage by any file that damages your operating system in any way, in other words, viruses.

Created since the first computer virus was discovered, if it wasn't for this reason, the Internet connection, computer work and even chat would be faster.

But that's all they do? I'm not here to put conspiracies in anyone's mind, but these are questions I've asked myself a long time ago. Whenever I had a computer I made sure that the first thing installed was an antivirus, to protect it, but I always wondered if it really protected it.

For a long time, the best protection against viruses or threats has been a good antivirus; one that updates often, captures as many viruses as possible and gives us the assurance that we have our computers clean.

An ex-hacker talked about how he had never used an anti-virus and that they were no longer needed on computers. Finding a bug without fixing it is the most popular method among hackers to attack a program. This way, hackers can create malware with the assurance that it will affect users, at least for a while. Unless you are a famous personality, have an important position, or are targeted for revenge, you are unlikely to be directly attacked by a hacker.

It's simply too much work to attack one person for little profit. Your personal information is much more valuable to you than it is to a hacker. So unless they have a very good reason to attack you personally, they won't.

Cellular Antivirus

One of the best "tricks" for not being infected is to control a little what we install in our device; not to accept the first thing offered to us.

That's still necessary, by all means, but the popularity of app stores has eased this requirement a bit. If we download apps from these stores, we are sure that several requirements have been met and that they are being monitored so that they do not infect users.

You probably already use an anti-virus without knowing it. In Windows, it's called Defender and has been pre-installed and activated in all new Windows installations for some time.

Defender is perfectly valid for normal daily use, for most users. Most of the current operating systems have means to prevent the most typical attacks.

But above all, the real reason why we don't need an antivirus is because we are more responsible users.

Obviously, there are still people who install the first thing they come across, who respond to emails they shouldn't respond to, who give out their data in a surprisingly innocent way. For those users, it would make sense to use the best possible protection.

And if you're a business person or so. In those cases not using an antivirus can be qualified as negligence; the value of your data and your company is immensely superior to the cost of an antivirus.