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> rogue antivirus products themselves? It's not just rogue AV software. Buggy, insecure AVs are a big problem too. They're attack surface! Especially when runn
by the8472 5y ago
> rogue antivirus products themselves?
It's not just rogue AV software. Buggy, insecure AVs are a big problem too. They're attack surface! Especially when running parsers and interpreters for untrusted inputs in kernel space.
- commandlinefan 5y agoEven when they don't expose any security holes, they bog the computer down so much that I'd almost rather have a virus - at least a command-and-control virus might take steps to make me unaware of its presence.
- vetinari 5y agoIn the '90s, there was a joke: What's the difference between Windows and viruses? Viruses do something.
- iso1210 5y ago> rogue AV software You repeat yourself sir
- mumblemumble 5y agoIf I were a black hat, I think that the best gift I could hope for would be a 3rd-party program, likely developed on the cheap, whose entire purpose for existing is to sit in kernel space and promiscuously open Every. Single. File. in order to process its contents. (Granted, I'm a complete layperson in computer security, so there's likely something I'm missing.)