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You can virus scan a binary before running it
by sammy2255 2y ago
You can virus scan a binary before running it
- fire_lake 2y agoAttackers can run a virus scan before distributing it.
- sammy2255 2y agonot sure what you’re getting at
- em-bee 2y agoattackers can check if a virus scan would detect the virus and change it until it passes the scans, so virus scans are not sufficient protection against dedicated attackers. just because a virus scan did not find anything in a binary, that doesn't mean the binary is safe.
- sammy2255 2y agoThats true but no sane malware developer would share their binary with VT. Downloading a binary is still safer than having your shell run arbitrary stuff
- rat87 2y agoSure but then it will trigger false positives some of the time https://github.com/astral-sh/rye/issues/468 https://github.com/astral-sh/rye/issues/468
- sammy2255 2y agoSure but I know a few trusted AVs I look at the results for to know whether this is the case, usually Malwarebytes and ESET, and Kaspersky