Installing the latest antivirus software is a poor advice and may be provided by some technical articles, but antiviruses update their database periodically, which means that there may be viruses that are not present in the database, which gives high probability false positive reports.
If those Antivirus softwares are not updated fast enough to deal with newest viruses, they will have to base on old data and scanning with them potential results in false negative report. That if we trust on false negative report from those softwares and think our devices are clean, we can lose our coins.
- Check the title completely, or at least the first and last 8 characters.
- Make sure everything is correct before broadcasting the transaction.
The biggest fear and threat is losing coins directly by a device and wallet compromise.
Checking some first and last characters of a Bitcoin address is a good practice.
How to lose your Bitcoins with CTRL-C CTRL-V.
Years ago, online services don't have the reminders for their users but recent years, it becomes a mandatory step when you submit a withdrawal request to an exchange. Spending a couple of seconds to check some characters is worthy to do and help us to avoid loss.