> Antivirus software always works as a driver in the kernel, no other way. You'r... | Hacker News

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		philistine on July 19, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Major Microsoft 365 outage caused by Azure configu... > Antivirus software always works as a driver in the kernel, no other way. You're confidently wrong: https://developer.apple.com/support/kernel-extensions/

kykqx on July 19, 2024 [–]

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.

philistine on July 19, 2024 | [–]

Yet it is how antivirus works on Mac now.

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