unalivejoy@lemm.ee to Programmer Humor@programming.devEnglish · 2 days agoMy corporate anti-virus doesn't let me add scanning exclusionsi.imgflip.comimagemessage-square43fedilinkarrow-up1230arrow-down13
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minus-squaredeegeese@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up42·2 days agoAh, that time when my job required me to write an executable scanner, and all the AVs got jealous I was honing in on their turf. AV running in kernel mode charges its CPU cycles to the process being monitored, instead of the AV doing the monitoring. I got a whole bunch of “your program is slow” support tickets which were resolved by telling the client to follow the AV exclusion instructions.
minus-squareCreatingMachines@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down1·2 days agoTook me way to long to notice I was accidentally reading “charges” as “changes”. Now I finally got what you were saying.
Ah, that time when my job required me to write an executable scanner, and all the AVs got jealous I was honing in on their turf.
AV running in kernel mode charges its CPU cycles to the process being monitored, instead of the AV doing the monitoring.
I got a whole bunch of “your program is slow” support tickets which were resolved by telling the client to follow the AV exclusion instructions.
Took me way to long to notice I was accidentally reading “charges” as “changes”. Now I finally got what you were saying.