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Antivirus sucks
by mewse-hn 8y ago
Antivirus sucks
- sebazzz 8y agoIt really does. I work at a big accountancy firm as a software developer so IT is quite security minded, and while our ThinkPad T470p notebooks aren't top of the line, they should be at least faster than my Dell Latitude E6520 of 2012 which both have i7 CPU. We run Symantec Endpoint Protection and this antimalware software is quite intrusive. I had an exception for a week to run with Symantec completely disabled, and never had a better working laptop. Still quite slow, but a good bit faster than usual. Since the Spectre microcode updates performance has only been getting worse.
- vidanay 8y agoSoftware developer here. My corporate IT also runs Symantec Endpoint Protection. For a period of about three months last year, SEP would delete my executables and dll's AS I WAS COMPILING THEM in Visual Studio. This would of course result in a failure to build the project. Usually compiling a second time would succeed, but sometimes it would take three or four tries. Needless to say, this resulted in an email from IT informing me of the unusual activity on my system, and when I told them it was deleting software that I was writing, they had to get approval from two levels of management that it was actually my job to be writing software and it should be allowed by SEP.
- CWuestefeld 8y agoI don't think you can blame this on AV in general, or Symantec specifically. What you're describing is an overzealous InfoSec department that's unable to consider the actual needs of different kinds of users.
- sebazzz 8y agoWhat exclusions did you end up getting? Only your checkout folder?
- qxmat 8y agoWe all moved to Macs for this very reason. Now I have a kernel thread that leaks ~1.7Gb over the course of 2 days if I 'watch' any assets but at least it's deterministic.