@Mexigore to Ask LemmyEnglish • 1 year agoAre opensource antivirus softwares reliable?message-square12arrow-up131arrow-down13
arrow-up128arrow-down1message-squareAre opensource antivirus softwares reliable?@Mexigore to Ask LemmyEnglish • 1 year agomessage-square12
minus-squareslazer2aulinkEnglish18•1 year agoAs with everything it depends. Would I trust ClamAV over McAfee or Norton? Hell yes. Would I trust ClamAV over windows defender? probably not.
minus-square/home/pineappleloverlinkfedilink3•edit-21 year agoHuh? Clamav is open sourced though. Although, it is made by Cisco and not gplv3, it’s under CC BY-ND 2.5 Deed.
minus-squareslazer2aulinkEnglish2•1 year agoNot 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.
As with everything it depends. Would I trust ClamAV over McAfee or Norton? Hell yes.
Would I trust ClamAV over windows defender? probably not.
Huh? Clamav is open sourced though. Although, it is made by Cisco and not gplv3, it’s under CC BY-ND 2.5 Deed.
Can you elaborate on the second point?
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.