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Originally Posted by jeffH70
Why do we even need this? There are only a handful known virus run on PPC. You can use one single hand to count them all and one of them is not even classified as virus, well proof of concept may be. It is a waste of time at this stage to load any useless virus scanner where no virus is in sight.
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It's like having a virus scanner on a Mac... why bother? Well, I guess Mac users are more prone to click/download or otherwise do something to get a virus, but 99% of viruses are written to attack Windows/x86 systems.
It's not very worthwhile to create viruses for small market sections.
I would once again, bet everything I own that non-trojan(collector) viruses, are somehow written, or at least involved with some of the major A/V companies. It's too convenient. Sometimes they have a fix for the viruses before people even know it exists.
Conspiracies aside, there's no need to waste RAM or clock-cycles running a virus scanner, at this point, or probably EVER on your WM phone.