My generation can get awfully snarky about antivirus: go on reddit, search for the topic, and you’ll find some arrogant responses along the lines of “antivirus is just adware and all I need is Malwarebytes”.
Well hey, good for you, and Malwarebytes is great (I use it too). But we millennials have a harder time remembering what the internet was like before AV came along, a time when any email or misclicked website could brick your computer. Now with the rise of ransomware and targeted attacks putting entire devices at risk once more, we have somehow resorted to blaming antivirus for not being effective enough at blocking these attacks. It’s unfair and short-sighted, and the popularity of the “AV is unnecessary” trend remains perpetually premature.