Only if the function was to harm in the first place.
Every single antivirus program is more like malware than actual helpful software, because malware is in fact a spook and best antimalware we currently have is a functioning human brain.
It's really sad that pharmaceuticals, akin to antimalware companies are allowed to get away with any of this.
When brain doesn't work, such punyware like antivirus does nothing. Study done in around 2007 found that 35% of IRS workers will fall victim to social engineering... Ending up directly giving up their password, imagine the fun you can do if you have a password like that and you needed to run no malicious code to steal such information.
Every single antivirus program is more like malware than actual helpful software, because malware is in fact a spook and best antimalware we currently have is a functioning human brain.
It's really sad that pharmaceuticals, akin to antimalware companies are allowed to get away with any of this.
When brain doesn't work, such punyware like antivirus does nothing. Study done in around 2007 found that 35% of IRS workers will fall victim to social engineering... Ending up directly giving up their password, imagine the fun you can do if you have a password like that and you needed to run no malicious code to steal such information.