Re: Emacs startup suddenly slower

[Richard Melville]

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