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Anti-virus here means anti-privacy. What shocks me most is that this is in the paid versions as well. I run Linux and have ClamAV installed for some compliance
by cies 7y ago
Anti-virus here means anti-privacy. What shocks me most is that this is in the paid versions as well.
I run Linux and have ClamAV installed for some compliance thingy, yet I have never run it (the compliance thingy tells me to have AV installed, not to actually run it). I can totally recommend some up-to-date Linux distro in case you want to steer clear of "virusses (etc)".
- ancarda 7y agoI used to run ClamAV for a few years, both on Linux and macOS. The only thing it ever detected were Windows viruses in my spam mailbox. Every time I received a spam email, ClamAV would complain and I'd have to go delete the email that was already not in my inbox.
- Jach 7y agoThis is ironically one of the ways using any AV can increase the attack surface of a device, leading to its compromise. I don't know if ClamAV has ever had an issue, but it seems lots of people here have forgotten the zoo of not-that-long-ago Windows Defender exploits that could be triggered by it scanning various files, like in a spam email the user never even looked at but their client downloaded a copy of anyway. The issues are often made worse by the AV processes that get owned already having root privileges.
- lonelappde 7y agoWhy does it shock you? Do you think Kaspersky was selling user info, and not just doing their security scanning work with an unintentionally leaking side effect?