unalivejoy@lemm.ee to Programmer Humor@programming.devEnglish · 9 days agoMy corporate anti-virus doesn't let me add scanning exclusionsi.imgflip.comimagemessage-square10fedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down10
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minus-squaredeegeese@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·9 days agoAh, that time when my job required me to write an executable scanner, and all the AVs got jealous I was honing in on their turf. AV running in kernel mode charges its CPU cycles to the process being monitored, instead of the AV doing the monitoring. I got a whole bunch of “your program is slow” support tickets which were resolved by telling the client to follow the AV exclusion instructions.
Ah, that time when my job required me to write an executable scanner, and all the AVs got jealous I was honing in on their turf.
AV running in kernel mode charges its CPU cycles to the process being monitored, instead of the AV doing the monitoring.
I got a whole bunch of “your program is slow” support tickets which were resolved by telling the client to follow the AV exclusion instructions.