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[–] Marija@programming.dev 1 points 2 days ago

Yeah, good reminder. Security tools need constant scrutiny too

[–] Lichtblitz@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

In the past I read that ClamAV is very resource hungry with a negligible detection rate for anything current. Has this changed? Does anyone know of some recent, independent comparison on detection rates?

Tbh, that doesn't sound different from any other antivirus software