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Are opensource antivirus softwares reliable? (lemmy.world)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 9 months ago

ClamAV is great and very reliable.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago (2 children)

As with everything it depends. Would I trust ClamAV over McAfee or Norton? Hell yes.

Would I trust ClamAV over windows defender? probably not.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Huh? Clamav is open sourced though. Although, it is made by Cisco and not gplv3, it's under CC BY-ND 2.5 Deed.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Can you elaborate on the second point?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Not without knowing what you mean by reliable.

Reliable at detecting malware? ClamAV would not do as well as Windows Defender.

Reliable as in the code is safe from bugs? I can't read that kind of code so I can't compre them.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago

Unpopular opinion but antivirus isn't as important as it used to be. Just don't click on suspicious links and don't run sketchy programs and you will be good.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

More reliable than enterprise ones, because they're maintened openly and by masses of people who actually care.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Depends on the software. Whether it is open- or closedsource has nothing to do with reliablity.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

GNU/Linux 🐂🐧

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Is this like the "there's no viruses on android"?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I meant GNU/Linux.

There are viruses on Android since if what most smartphone users around the world use.