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by philistine 693 days ago
> Antivirus software always works as a driver in the kernel, no other way.

You're confidently wrong: https://developer.apple.com/support/kernel-extensions/

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This page is only about using some APIs, that are now supposed to be called through wrappers. I would say it significantly limits the developers, and also may introduce additional flaws.
Yet it is how antivirus works on Mac now.