From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Melville <6tricky9@gmail.com> Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs startup suddenly slower Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2017 09:01:01 +0100 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1505721710 26454 195.159.176.226 (18 Sep 2017 08:01:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2017 08:01:50 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 18 10:01:45 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dtqzx-0006dK-5u for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 18 Sep 2017 10:01:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35151 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dtr04-0007hz-6a for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 18 Sep 2017 04:01:52 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33894) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from <6tricky9@gmail.com>) id 1dtqzJ-0007bX-Q4 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Sep 2017 04:01:11 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from <6tricky9@gmail.com>) id 1dtqzI-0007Qy-R4 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Sep 2017 04:01:05 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-io0-x234.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4001:c06::234]:46406) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from <6tricky9@gmail.com>) id 1dtqzI-0007QZ-K6 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Sep 2017 04:01:04 -0400 Original-Received: by mail-io0-x234.google.com with SMTP id d16so160067ioj.3 for ; Mon, 18 Sep 2017 01:01:03 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=mime-version:from:date:message-id:subject:to; bh=1En2lOP3D6jjjUL0Lk9FREGpsBj3RpBXc9YwXJ5BK5Y=; b=AdNjfPaPn3ahytrcE6asf7c6F2yVEDtEozmgqmdsn7psuTaKXOP1PHNwt/+dFcrZRe n1hG4w9D2kkcWmRghcygVxEK15+XAdy/i+HsdmduXBP+2llGV1mxVZ/nm5+MPZgAgnzq V0m8P0WlVqvn7gMGGpIq66TAjCfTfZ+GiUUI6U7dq+8Gy9SlMVfHvViyqlpMIlz9BM4U AWXm9aRpynj9FlhzSS7RtfcVOh4ex8SD6/wEwBWmTOn4lp3MFFr1i7XweqAWyDR6amDX vztrywPvYNAQENvr5PVz0DOFdiNrLzXL5mEQuMyx7DHtZ1iypkk4Y8TTkxWRcEGd2kmG IMBA== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:from:date:message-id:subject:to; bh=1En2lOP3D6jjjUL0Lk9FREGpsBj3RpBXc9YwXJ5BK5Y=; b=l1feifDL0L/A967Rl2NQMhsTZx2exd9+Cs8/nP88UR/3NtJFNT0F7hrEd/lLd0uds/ MBEU2z8AZZ125PBEpvYvFb0dc5DLu+PJiw6CTZTeYmw5AzjrtfO5RotZfj7l4smlIVL6 n17A32+VdBVSknJV4Fs5Mj6zis5XVFXMMYh3a17O82XVlQ/AKdpg7DlmuYhJ5ozqVggR c75QaoSgEDxGeOCwSHJEwZvMB3iEI49y5oeEZ1NzsE2qO/WEL4cJqwMfoWhClhdLKfRQ sYNLCDe80QKWsgAkc7oPZOeCIoQ44uNcuW4QbHCv9xoHWyESpDX5W4/XuZHUqyTzelxB Au5Q== X-Gm-Message-State: AHPjjUhMB+eePIC0MJkImqCC1Js34SWTLYWDLw7CwTxru1pQ47GSMjmv HMq6yCLijpUPiadvoeYl/J3DCg8SAu/8mSmlEm8= X-Google-Smtp-Source: AOwi7QDt579XsvufNDj20R9admEmVCLG6NNaKjBliF2b16mEXRWEHobRWNWeNTxpGjmOY2qA3Dl/xyU16nFlawd6XEI= X-Received: by 10.202.54.6 with SMTP id d6mr5264811oia.85.1505721662189; Mon, 18 Sep 2017 01:01:02 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.74.22.82 with HTTP; Mon, 18 Sep 2017 01:01:01 -0700 (PDT) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 2607:f8b0:4001:c06::234 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.21 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:114298 Archived-At: On 16 September 2017 at 21:48, Emanuel Berg 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