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So, the solution is to antagonize a user that is taking time and effort to inform you of the problem?

> This is a dumb idea. What's the point of anti-virus if we just trust the vendor.

The AV company will, hopefully, not... The vendor is the only one that can vet that the file on the site is the file that it is intended to be. They are also the only ones that can make changes to the their builds (which can help).



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