This is a fundamental reason why I personally do not use any "anti-virus"
Isic) product: anywhere, anytime.
These products, to me, are
all "snake oil," based on the flawed assumption that computer systems are somehow "biological." That they can "get infected." That rogue software is "a virus." None of these things are true.
As a human being, you can "get sick" just by walking into an elevator in which someone else too-recently
sneezed. Viruses can attach themselves to your DNA and therefore your body's immune system is constantly on the lookout, destroying them. "Sucks to be human," I guess ...
... but a computer is not that way.
"Anti-virus" software is extremely powerful and pervasive because it has access to everything in the system, and because it modifies files. It therefore is a very-obvious vector for
attack. It has frequently been demonstrated that virus-signature files can be used to
install rogue software.
But, speaking of "rogue software," this is
also why I run every Internet ad-blocker I can find. Internet advertisements routinely consist of both images
and code, and they have been used many times to launch DDOS attacks and other mischief. If you want millions of computers all around the world to be running your software, just conceal it in an advertisement . . .