May I calmly suggest that "virus protection" software is highly overrated, and that the popular term, "virus," is a misnomer?
"Strictly IMHO," you actually expose your system to more "overall, albeit theoretical, vulnerability" by running a piece of software ... a scanner ... which you purposely "give access to everything, albeit for supposedly-sovereign purposes." Anything which a scanner can scan, a sabotaged scanner can modify.
IMHO, you should always remember that a computer system is "merely a machine ... not a biological organism." As a biological organism yourself, you can "catch" a dreadful illness merely by walking into the wrong elevator at the wrong time and breathing, unless your immune system fights it off. Computing machines are not that way.
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