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Recent Twitter discussions have surfaced the fact that many antiviruses on Windows still do not properly sandbox their scanning engines, which often use legacy code to unpack and parse untrusted content. So by installing an antivirus, you may actually increase the attack surface dramatically. (For example, when an antivirus is parsing a freshly downloaded PDF file to analyze it, a malicious PDF could exploit the antivirus and run arbitrary code with the antivirus privileges.) I suppose that is the reason why Tech Solidarity recommends users who are likely to be targeted to uninstall any third-party antivirus products and replace them with Windows Defender.

Is there any antivirus that can reliably sandbox and contain malicious code that happens to exploit a code execution vulnerability in the antivirus itself?

Are there any startup-friendly banks that non-US founders can use for the initial stages of the company before their revenue starts to grow rapidly?

Ideally, I’d like to find someone who does not require us to visit the US at all.

Did you learn Miranda or Haskell as your first programming language? Tell us about your experience.

Do you mainly use Haskell now? If not, why?

C++ is notorious for often being too hard to get your code completely right. Is Rust affected by the same curse?

Did you work on a Rust project in a team with ordinary, non-genius programmers? How does the expressive power and complexity of the language affect the quality of their code?

I want to understand how demanding Rust is to developers compared to C++, C, and Go.