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Who defines what "AV" is? Isn't your whitelisting solution also an "antivirus"?
by dTal 7y ago
Who defines what "AV" is? Isn't your whitelisting solution also an "antivirus"?
- detaro 7y agoPretty much every definition defines antivirus as software that inspects files and attempts to decide if they are malware or not (and then blocks access etc).
- _jal 7y ago> (and then blocks access etc) Not so much. I'm required to run AV software on production Linux systems. All it does is write opinions to a log. Insofar as the only reason we run it is checkbox-compliance, I'm fine with it being useless - certainly not asking for some kernel module or something that could actually block access. But I do find it funny.
- SamuelAdams 7y agoNIST actually defines most of these standards and definitions. "Antivirus Software" has two: A program specifically designed to detect many forms of malware and prevent them from infecting computers, as well as cleaning computers that have already been infected. A program that monitors a computer or network to identify all major types of malware and prevent or contain malware incidents. [1]: https://csrc.nist.gov/glossary/term/Antivirus-Software https://csrc.nist.gov/glossary/term/Antivirus-Software
- blattimwind 7y ago> as well as cleaning computers that have already been infected. That's not a thing.
- zymhan 7y agoWell, all AV software seems to offer the option, but I don't know many folks who would trust it alone.
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