Virus scanners: useful tool or snake oil?

Continuing the discussion from ESP32 virus discovered in IDE esp32 tool:

Another victim of genuine snakeoil vendors.

Then delete that stuff, delete the archive, reinstall it.

Activate windows defender snakeoil, deactivate your current snakeoil, try again.

@zwieblum ,

I've split your comments into a separate topic because I think they might make for a worthwhile discussion but in the context of the topic you replied in the are useless to the OP.

... many thanks :0)

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