• slazer2au@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    20
    arrow-down
    2
    ·
    11 months ago

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

    Would I trust ClamAV over windows defender? probably not.

    • /home/pineapplelover@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      4
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      edit-2
      11 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.

      • slazer2au@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        11 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.

  • bigboismith@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    12
    ·
    11 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.

  • Kalash@feddit.ch
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    12
    arrow-down
    3
    ·
    edit-2
    11 months ago

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

    • KISSmyOS@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      5
      ·
      11 months ago

      If you look too far behind the curtain, it’s scary how much of the essential open source software that’s running everywhere is maintained by one hobbyist with money problems, or not maintained at all, really.

      • Granixo@feddit.cl
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        3
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        11 months ago

        I meant GNU/Linux.

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

        • KISSmyOS@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          7
          ·
          11 months ago

          GNU/Linux is what most server infrastructure in the world runs on, so it’s definitely a big, fat, juicy target.

            • KISSmyOS@lemmy.world
              link
              fedilink
              arrow-up
              2
              arrow-down
              1
              ·
              11 months ago

              ?
              Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Cloudflare and Google servers run on Linux, so that’s >90% of the websites people use daily depending on it.