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I generally agree but give me more credit. I monitored the system calls myself. Also VirusTotal isn't a virus scanner but rather a community driven aggregator.
by jart 4y ago
I generally agree but give me more credit. I monitored the system calls myself. Also VirusTotal isn't a virus scanner but rather a community driven aggregator. People leave comments and downvote when binaries do evil things.
- pmoriarty 4y ago"People leave comments and downvote when binaries do evil things." There are just way, way, way too many binaries out there for even a large fraction of them to be commented on. I would definitely not rely on such comments for my security. Anecdotally, I've scanned a ton of stuff through VT and very rarely saw any comments on them at all. It happens sometimes, but not a lot.
- dontbenebby 4y agoThe binary has to be used for evil a lot before people notice.
- dontbenebby 4y agoSorry, I wasn't questioning your integrity, it was more a meta level question since I lack that ability to start looking at system calls and thought to myself "this looks cool, I can probably trust it, but am I making a rational choice or just being reckles because it's on a well known site and I think the concepts are cool". (And sorry I posted hard today, I had too much caffeine and my weed supply dried up -- if I didn't have those issues you'd see most of my comments be more like this one.)
- jart 4y ago> I lack that ability to start looking at system calls Let's fix that then. Which operating system do you use?