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The issue is Defender and equivalents. Those would have access of course, and hence have an extreme competitive advantage relative to other products. Even more
by lazide 2y ago
The issue is Defender and equivalents.
Those would have access of course, and hence have an extreme competitive advantage relative to other products. Even more than they do now.
Kiss any non-Microsoft antivirus or security software goodbye.
- Rinzler89 2y ago>The issue is Defender and equivalents. Not just that, but that would break backwards compatibility with a lot of niche but important apps, since Windows was very popular with use cases where companies have developed kernel space drivers for their Windows products. Yanking that away for security with break backwards compatibility.
- lazide 2y agoAre you talking hardware drivers or something else?
- whimsicalism 2y agoI think userspace AV would work fine for 99%+ of usecases, not some extreme competitive advantage.
- lazide 2y agoNot even close - real time memory scanning? Suspicious memory access detection? Suspicious file access detection? Suspicious network traffic? Suspicious kernel calls? Introspection on running program code? It’s already a major performance impact, throwing it into user space would kill those products entirely.
- whimsicalism 2y agowhat mac AVs support this?
- lazide 2y agoMac’s are a tiny segment of the business market, and hence get almost none of the attention from attacks.