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I skimmed it, I didn't see anything I haven't seen before. Notably they aren't grading on stuff like "number of popups that I have to click through to get it to quit nagging me." There's also been privilege elevation exploits using antivirus software.

EDIT: And there's anti-virus software that's messing with your system's root certificates so it can MitM all your HTTPS traffic to scan it:

http://www.securityweek.com/antivirus-software-has-negative-...




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