All of them have noticeable performance issues, and many were downright unusable for our devs (blocked debuggers, caused issues when hooking into system calls, etc). I have tested Symantec, Kaspersky, Norton, ZoneAlarm, Avast, and AVG. They're smart enough to get around policies/software that tries to prevent this. iTunes, AIM, other apps they've discovered that they like. Your developers have software on their machines that is not "necessary" for their jobs.Installing AV software on all machines except your developers' leaves the (arguably) most valuable workstations unprotected.If your devs are perfect and your receptionist clicks a bad link his mom sent to him, your network is compromised. Receptionists, office managers, sales people, etc. Unless you're a very small company, you have non-technical people working with you.What about software vulnerabilities? What if a "known-good" software site is hijacked? What if automatic update software (Java, Adobe, Apple, MS, whatever) is compromised? Your security is too valuable to leave in the hands of your employees and your vendors. Downloading software is only one vector of viral attack.You cannot bet your infrastructure on the perfection of your employees' awareness. Everyone, no matter how brilliant, makes mistakes.Even if your vendor is slow about getting new definitions out, if your software detects a virus on your machine after the fact you're much better off than if you had no AV software at all. Prevention is only one of the functions of antivirus.It's been said a few times in these answers that developers should know better, or should only install software they need from known good sites, etc, so if you need antivirus you have a social issue, not a technical issues.
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