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by aewens 2177 days ago
An open source antivirus program is a bit oxymoronic. Sure, people can contribute new means of stopping more attacks, but it also shows attackers exactly how to evade it. So you'd be losing more than you'd gain in that situation.
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Security through obscurity (or security by obscurity) is the reliance in security engineering on design or implementation secrecy as the main method of providing security to a system or component. Security experts have rejected this view as far back as 1851, and advise that obscurity should never be the only security mechanism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_through_obscurity

Edit: Link

Dang. I guess they better shutdown clamav.

https://www.clamav.net/