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Re: Emacs startup suddenly slower
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Emanuel Berg |
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Re: Emacs startup suddenly slower |
Date: |
Sat, 16 Sep 2017 22:48:38 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) |
John Mastro wrote:
>> PS. Why do you want to run an antivirus
>> program each time you start Emacs? Is that
>> a new vulnerable interface where the
>> crackers lay their attentions?
>
> That's not really how it works. Rather than
> a user initiating a virus scan at specific
> times, it's always running in the background,
> analyzing program behavior for signs that
> a process may be malicious (among other
> things).
>
> The idea is that this may let it catch, for
> instance, some new ransomware variant based
> purely on the fact that it's doing
> ransomware-like things, without needing
> a specific "signature" to identify it.
Isn't there an antivirus Emacs package or ditto
GNU/Linux tool?
Because in all my years doing this I never paid
it any attention, so there is no telling what
mayhem the crackers have been up to right up my
back yard!
~"... an anarchist circus, travelling from
summit to summit, with the sole purpose
of creating as much mayhem as possible."
(Tony Blair,
after the the 2001 Gothenburg riots)
--
underground experts united
http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573
- Emacs startup suddenly slower, Sivaram Neelakantan, 2017/09/13
- RE: Emacs startup suddenly slower, Drew Adams, 2017/09/13
- Re: Emacs startup suddenly slower, Eli Zaretskii, 2017/09/13
- Re: Emacs startup suddenly slower, Emanuel Berg, 2017/09/13
- Re: Emacs startup suddenly slower, John Mastro, 2017/09/13
- Re: Emacs startup suddenly slower, Sivaram Neelakantan, 2017/09/13