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Re: Emacs startup suddenly slower
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Richard Melville |
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Re: Emacs startup suddenly slower |
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Mon, 18 Sep 2017 09:01:01 +0100 |
On 16 September 2017 at 21:48, Emanuel Berg <moasen@zoho.com> wrote:
> 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)
>
I'm not sure what the purpose is of the quote, but as far as I'm concerned
(and many others) Tony Blair, and all his cohorts, should be in jail.
Richard
- 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
- Re: Emacs startup suddenly slower,
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