eli5 Why do anti viruses flag illicit software as viruses even if there are none?
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Because anti-virus software has evolved beyond just detecting viruses. They detect all sorts of malicious programs and code and flag them as what they are. So if it’s not a virus, but still bad, it won’t flag it as a virus, it will flag it as whatever it is (e.g. tracking cookie, trojan, spyware, etc.)
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