Antivirus Softwares Can Make Online Transactions Less Secure According To Study
However with the passage of time, researchers realized that instead of securing users, these softwares are actually harming users. “Out of the products we analysed, we found that all of them lower the level of security normally provided by current browsers, and often bring serious security vulnerabilities,” said one of the researchers Xavier de Carne de Carnavalet from Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. “While a couple of fishy ad-related products were known to behave badly in the same set-up, it’s stunning to observe that products intended to bring security and safety to users can fail as badly,” Xavier said in an official statement....