> Which brings back my argument, the reason you install an antivirus in your computer
> is because of the real-time scanner (the main module in an antivirus).
Again I must tell you that it's how you perceive things. In the DOS days, when viruses were rampant and antivirus software was from scarce to unheard, it was just a commandline scanner. The scanner (real-time, on-demand, on-purpose, at-your-back, when-you want) and a solid virus DB is the main part of an antivirus. How the scanner is activated is, and should be, left to the user (at least to users who know what they do). Without a good scanner, the real-time checker of a file is pretty much useless.
For me, the real-time module which calls the scanner when you touch/download/uncompress/think-of a file is a recent shiny thing which should be used with care if you don't want to waste resources when you don't want to. And yes, there were resident scanners in DOS to check executables when you ran them. I don't know of anyone who used them, but of course that was just a situational thingy. Nowadays there are so many processes running in the background that users hardly know what's going on besides the browser window.
So, if you're a simple, novice or careless user, an install-and-forget antivirus is the ideal solution, and I can agree on that. For a medium to power user, it's just a choice. Hence the start of this thread. Because Italie has bad grammer but excellence in computing. Like 2+2=5 for large values of 2 and such other computing and IT mysteries.
Does anyone else remember when McAffee was the king on the DOS days? ^_^
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