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@p @r @rms @silverpill @gabriel @lanodan @sun do pls tag me with eriner, id appreciate that. Id be surprised if there were no group on fedi across this space, it would be good not only to get a handle on issues such as those experienced by Sun (thanks sun), and to build a solid ecosystem of hosts.

as libre s/w becomes more popular than....other s/w, so too will attacks on it. can we afford to assume into the future that if something does get discovered that we can (EDIT: wait) for the upstream fixes to exploits. EDIT the time of eternal vigilance is due.

A few days ago I did some reading at the archlinux wiki and it was interesting to read the different methods that can be used, for different use cases. Scan-on-use etc They talk about pitfalls like heavily inefficient cases. Theres also an invented word, 'milter', and its not an acronym for Mother Id Like To something something lol. i learned something completely unrelated to the topic by reading it too. ahh the joys of reading....and reading the archlinux wiki

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/ClamAV

EDIT including @sohrab