1 year ago
Sat Jul 20, 2024 10:16am PST
Honest Question: What's wrong with an offline or standalone malware scanner?
Why is a dynamic or real-time scanner required for all use-cases and on every machine? I can understand if it's mission-critical or something but most PCs are already secure behind several layers. For example, your enterprise firewall itself is a kind of virus/malware scanner, most of the malware links/scripts would be blocked at that layer itself. Another layer is Windows itself which has a built-in scanner called Defender. And even after that, there are offline scanners like ClamAV which can scan individual files on demand. If you have a habit of scanning every file after downloading it, why do you need a real-time scanner at all?
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