Way forward to on-access antivirus in Linux

Posted Nov 11, 2019 15:46 UTC (Mon) by zlynx (guest, #2285)
In reply to: Way forward to on-access antivirus in Linux by Cyberax
Parent article: Filesystem sandboxing with eBPF

Microsoft has to build hacks for nearly every release of Windows 10 because some company's idiot AV thinks it knows Windows better than Microsoft does.

Way forward to on-access antivirus in Linux

Posted Nov 11, 2019 15:52 UTC (Mon) by pizza (subscriber, #46) [Link] (1 responses)

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..)

Way forward to on-access antivirus in Linux

Posted Nov 11, 2019 16:17 UTC (Mon) by dezgeg (subscriber, #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-...