Comment on Is Antivirus needed in 2024?

Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• AlijahTheMediocre@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Is there any real world testing of Clam’s antivirus performance?

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  • Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yes. It was done most recently in 2022

    In that same study, ClamAV performed relatively well at detecting certain types of malware in certain types of files (E.g. docx files, dil files, elf files, doc files and exe files), but was less effective in detecting malware in jar files, js files, vbs files, z files, rar files, and xlsb files. In addition, ClamAV performed well to detect a few top level categories of malware like Trojans & Botnets but performed poorly on other malware types like Crypto Miners, RATs and Info Stealers.

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