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pauses massive bong rip

Wait what this doesn't sound like reality

checks

Hmmm

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[–] Avicenna@programming.dev 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

There already better alternatives like clamav but I guess that assumes the IT department is actually Linux proficient.

[–] voodooattack@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

ClamAV is shit, and I’ve been using it on my machine for years

[–] Avicenna@programming.dev 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] voodooattack@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

The definitions are always behind, and custom sources are still behind. The configuration sucks and that’s from a NixOS user. The IO latency is atrocious when set to watching the filesystem, and it’s generally unwieldy. The clamscan/clamdscan separation doesn’t make sense either. And it’s slow as hell parsing definitions.