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Re:Windows Defender is enough, if you harden it by netcoyote on Sunday March 06, 2022 @10:27PM (#30583914)
The virus might be discovered after the file it’s contained in is written to disk, which is why you’d need to scan when reading.
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Re:Windows Defender is enough, if you harden it by ComputerGuru on Monday March 07, 2022 @12:18AM (#30584464)
Then don’t scan when writing?
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Re:Windows Defender is enough, if you harden it by codeflo on Monday March 07, 2022 @04:46AM (#30585880)
The virus signatures haven’t been updated since my last recompile though.
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