This link is merely an example. It may well be a false alert from my AV (after looking more closer to the report it seems the problem is the favicon).
I still think that people with enough knowledge can come up with malicious stuff with the intention to harm other people by stealing their data or whatever. Look at you, you accomplished amazing things with the Wii. I bet you could easily code something very bad for the PC that can bypass all existent AVs due to a missing entry in the AV's database. But once it's in the database people need this AV to secure themselves from it. And if you don't have an AV you are always gonna be vulnerable to it.
I can't deny that AV companies may be doing a bit scam. There has been rumors for years that some AV companies deliberately spread viruses to the internet to increase their own detection rate. Even if this happens to be true, that grain of scam doesn't make AVs completly useless imo. It's a bit like medicine. It tastes bad, but you need it.
I still think that people with enough knowledge can come up with malicious stuff with the intention to harm other people by stealing their data or whatever. Look at you, you accomplished amazing things with the Wii. I bet you could easily code something very bad for the PC that can bypass all existent AVs due to a missing entry in the AV's database. But once it's in the database people need this AV to secure themselves from it. And if you don't have an AV you are always gonna be vulnerable to it.
I can't deny that AV companies may be doing a bit scam. There has been rumors for years that some AV companies deliberately spread viruses to the internet to increase their own detection rate. Even if this happens to be true, that grain of scam doesn't make AVs completly useless imo. It's a bit like medicine. It tastes bad, but you need it.