We see, day after day, real and so-called security experts announcing the newest security apocalypse we face. Claiming that antivirus is a dead technology, they invite you to uninstall it and buy new next-generation technologies that will automatically collect, analyze and detect malicious intentions of attacks or data compromise from the moment they are born in the minds of the bad guys.
Sometimes they come from people more or less familiar with the topic - Is Anti-Virus Scanning/Detection Obsolete? - and you can see that most of the opinions there are not so negative, apart from the classic advertising for some AV brands. Other times they come from specialists in the field, trying to give an opinion or just sell their “stuff”.