Anti-virus scams are enabled by the vendors themselves

Shane Hickey wrote in the Guardian back in May, quote marks added: Criminals use a variety of tactics to convince people that they are from McAfee and are becoming more sophisticated with advances in “artificial intelligence”, according to the company. There’s a broader discussion about the necessity of such AV tools, and McAfee’s own… shall we say, history! If you have a spare half an hour on your Sunday, do check out the history of the company and its eccentric former CEO; they read more like caricatures. But I digress. The purpose of a system is what it does, and the purpose of “AI” is to flood the web with spam. Having said that, is a phrase with three words. I still place a big part of the responsibility on the vendors themselves for where we find ourselves. I’ve been sending email since the late 1990s, and some of the worst formatted and badly written email I’ve ever received have been from official channels. Having worked with clients who’ve been compelled to use the…