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Well, millions or billions have been made on anti-virus software. The overhead to have every file or network operation read by some scanning program is too much. This needs to be avoided at all costs. Especially since there are better ways.

Again, the proper solution for the kind of people who would actually install a virus manually is to simply point them at the App store.



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