What's not to love about third-party software injecting itself into Firefox and causing crashes in the Rust standard library?

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/143078

@evilpie let me guess: antivirus?

@buherator @evilpie Samsung SDS, and Jiangsu Agile Technology, so yes

@evilpie @soller
So why do I want software injecting itself into other software at all?

@evilpie Wait, antivirus software is injecting DLLs and not using the hooks that Windows provides for system call interception? So the AV code is running in the same address space as, and modifiable by, the suspected malware?

I’m used to AV software doing things that are vulnerable to decades-old attacks or weaken security, but this is incompetent even by those standards.

@david_chisnall @evilpie It is truly THAT bad. They claim they have a mandate to do that to best protect from web-based threats. All of this is obviously bad and wrong and causing way more harm than good.

And apparently none of them do integration tests with Firefox Beta or release candidate versions.