

You must make your own decisions from where you buy your software. I prefer, but do not require to have the source code to look at. I would not use crypto software from China, Russia, US and a couple more. Why mention Kaspersky and Russia? I see the antivirus discussion in general. More users on a platform generates more interest and effort from the virus makers. At least the known ones.Īnd there are now a lot of viruses that are not good even if you use a mac. That would ve good for your reputation and your company :) That you could maybe prevent with a decent antivirus software. You can receive a word document with a macro virus in it, and send the infected document on to your customer.

At least if you have and work with material worth protecting or in any way work with customers exchanging files. This won't stop any behavioral analysis from blocking things, but should prevent disk scans from picking up and removing your files.Good antivirus is a very good complement and it is worth paying for it. You could do this by cloning the Git repo using the instructions at whilst disabling your AV, set an exception on the directory you cloned the Git repo into, and then reenable the AV.

I'd also recommend perhaps installing it all into one directory and then adding an exception for that directory. This sometimes happens with Windows Defender whereby a file could be labeled as fine on disk, but when its executed in memory the dynamic behavioral analysis engine catches the file again and prevents it from executing or quarantines it. If possible I would try to use a VM, however if this is not possible then what I would recommend is to see if dynamic behavioral scanning is taking place. We generally recommend running Metasploit on a VM rather than your primary machine for reasons such as this one.
