I am unable to wrap around my head how FOSS antivirus are a thing.
They help pedos check to make sure they aren't chatting with decoys.https://rumble.com/c/PredatorPoachers
>>107613665There's a reason why there are no foss anti-viruses that are actually used commercially, they'd inherently make it trivial for hackers to bypass protection. FOSS isn't really an advantage in security, it's mostly an advantage in privacy where the actual provider itself is provably not a problem if you're tinfoil hat enough to think everything proprietary is spyware, but it doesn't help with third party attacks.
>>107613665because windows still exists, and still infects thumbdrives and such?
>>107613665Good morning sir
>>107613665Use case for antivirus if you're not retarded?
>>107613713>rumble
>>107613665it does not let you download it if you are Russian.is it really free when it has a political bias?
>>107613665only reason why AVs are a thing on windows to begin with is people being able to run software downloaded from internet with no trusted signature. you can put a lot of thing under AV name like a SIEM in its ultimate form but in the end even if you formally defined security issues arisen from software bugs as policy issues (weird machine can act outside of its specification and there's no external policy to restrict its behaviors) AVs in the usual sense (pattern-based blacklist) can't do much anything against them.https://privsec.dev/posts/knowledge/badness-enumeration/Now, if we talk about other functionality of AVs like IPS, sandboxing, firewall and other attack surface reduction methods they do exist in FOSS software.
>>107613713Hi Mr Ebussy, my names Gordon Flowers. I know you are a good guy and all but I think we should go over some of these messages on Mastodon that you sent to 12 year old boys. You probably meant well and I misunderstood the context so do you mind explaining to me what's going on.
>>107613914hey man this is a thread for retards. get out of here with that shit
>>107613665it's an primarily an email scanner backed by Cisco, that's why, the freemium model.AFAIK, the engine is very basic.>>107613714this is bait
>>107613665I've dealt with ClamAV at work, the basic idea is that you run it on a non-windows system (usually linux) to scan files on network storage (usually provided by linux) so that when some idiot in accounting uploads totallyrealinvoice.pdf.exe that he got from a sketchy email, you find out about it before the next person who downloads it does.
