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Re: AV scan on read vs write debate....


From: Joe Brown <joeb1kenobe () gmail com>
Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2014 14:26:57 -0400

A compromise might be to have scan on Write only, with a forced full system
scan of all files at a certain time. For example at lunch time.

1. You don't have an all the time performance hit.
2. Files will be checked on a daily/weekly basis.

Negatives are that these files may sit on the device while waiting for the
next scheduled scan.

Joe


On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 2:45 AM, Yoann Gini <yoann.gini () gmail com> wrote:


Le 30 juin 2014 à 01:48, Reindl Harald <h.reindl () thelounge net> a écrit :

but if you are talk with Apple "the OS is secure" priests
forget it, they are learning resistent

This is not true anymore. Any Apple representative wont tell you that
nowadays. Even more, Apple has a small antivirus builtin in the system. But
signatures based, focused on major OS X threats. No heuristics, no
detection of windows malwares.

Le 30 juin 2014 à 01:38, Exibar <exibar () thelair com> a écrit :

they claim they have a huge performance
improvement with scan on read turned off...


This is also true. Sadly. I work only on Apple products (and I use
antivirus), I never seen a good product who don’t slow down the computer as
shit.

From a sys admin perspective, Antivirus editors don’t take the Mac
seriously, their product are slow and sometime published with too much bug
inside. That don’t help Mac users to have any trust in it…

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