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Way forward to on-access antivirus in Linux

Way forward to on-access antivirus in Linux

Posted Nov 11, 2019 15:52 UTC (Mon) by pizza (subscriber, #46)
In reply to: Way forward to on-access antivirus in Linux by zlynx
Parent article: Filesystem sandboxing with eBPF

Similarly, "enterprise" AV is responsible for reducing brand-new ultrabooks with nvme storage and making them perform about as well as a much older system with spinning rust.

(seriously; I just saw a thread on my employer's intermal messaging boards about how our current enterprise AV suite makes compiles take nearly 3x longer than without it..)


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Way forward to on-access antivirus in Linux

Posted Nov 11, 2019 16:17 UTC (Mon) by dezgeg (guest, #92243) [Link]

Not to mention all the extra security holes introduced by AVs doing complex parsing of file formats in processes running with SYSTEM permissions, e.g. https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2015/09/kaspersky-...


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