Comment: Re:A good reason (Score 2) 68
And even if we somehow made the desktop and mobile OSes completely safe without simultaneously making them useless - there's still the fortress of unassailability called SCADA and other embedded OSes that most likely aren't going to be as perfect. Unless we move to a world where every computing devise and software is EAL7 certified and every spec is guaranteed not to contain any flaws or weaknesses of any kind we'll have malware researchers because malware is lucrative enough to always be there.
And since right now we live in a world where ridiculous flaws actually make it to production, the manufacturers are often too incompetent to release a fix and perfectly normal ad networks unwittingly distributing malware (and perfectly normal websites having vulnerable backends) is not unheard of, we can't assume that restricting your browsing behavior to legit-looking sites is going to keep your system safe.
It's up to each of us to decide whether we need AV on our devices but just assuming that a device is secure just because it doesn't run on the NT kernel is delusional. For crying out loud, everyone who has an Exynos 4-based smartphone has the contents of their RAM world-readable and world-writable!
And since right now we live in a world where ridiculous flaws actually make it to production, the manufacturers are often too incompetent to release a fix and perfectly normal ad networks unwittingly distributing malware (and perfectly normal websites having vulnerable backends) is not unheard of, we can't assume that restricting your browsing behavior to legit-looking sites is going to keep your system safe.
It's up to each of us to decide whether we need AV on our devices but just assuming that a device is secure just because it doesn't run on the NT kernel is delusional. For crying out loud, everyone who has an Exynos 4-based smartphone has the contents of their RAM world-readable and world-writable!