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Not really. It's more of:

    - many would prefer to whitelist trusted software than blacklist malware
    - bypassing AV is trivial 
        - http://www.sevagas.com/IMG/pdf/BypassAVDynamics.pdf
        - https://github.com/Veil-Framework/Veil-Evasion
That many security experts use GNU/Linux or *BSD is definitely a factor, but many people still use Windows.

Great question, though. :)



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