Hi, Has anyone seen a review or install this new antivirus from Microsoft that now support Linux? I was kind of under the impression that an antivirus was really not needed for Linux. Your opinion. Thanks [image] Microsoft Brings Defender Antivirus for Linux, Coming Soon for Android a…

is there anything about viruses in particular that you are concerned about? here is one write-up i found that gives a bit more information. my take on windows releasing defender for linux and other platforms is mostly about an attempt to increase market share. of course embrace, extend and extingu…

ClamAV is the standard anti-virus software one may run on Linux. It is being used in enterprise environments, however even then only when you want to take every security measure possible. Generally, one does not need an anti-virus for Linux based operating systems.

I am with akito on this Been using Linux for around 20 years and never seen a virus, with over 400 installed client machines. Did have a couple who demanded a antivirus even though I assured them not needed, so put clamav on just to show and reassure. But never had one back with that type of issue…

Like some of the other writers, I ran ClamAV for years. It found malware on only one occasion and what it found was a couple of MS .doc files that had been tampered with. The only vulnerability was if I sent the files to someone who then used them in Windows. The exploit wouldn’t run in Linux. A…

My only comment is during the test phase I could not get Defender to run under Linux. M$ had me do this and that but I saw it as very invasive and finally gave up and removed it. It was quite the process. And it always wanted to send data to M$ according to my Firewall.

Strikes me as absurd, somebody looking for another way to make some money. I too have been running Linux non-stop for 20 years and never seen a virus. The only reason for antivirus on Linux is if you’re using it to run services for Windows lusers. :laughing:

Thats because their is so few made for linux and were years ago but as linux becomes more popular they will catch up. A security tip... Creat 2 accounts but only one administrator and done use unless you have to just use the restricted one for day to day use->>This comes from a professional hacker n…

Only time I’ve seen viruses on a Linux/UNIX system, was on my FreeNAS box, in a Samba share, put there by a Windows computer… it was easy to get rid of, it created *.exe files with the same name as the parent folder, with a folder icon (and repeated everytime you double clicked on the exe file, thi…

@community Having antivirus on Linux is something ridiculous in my opinion because its lot more secure than Windows and Mac . If you take security measures and be cautious no one is going to harm you not even monkeys are going to harm yoir system meaning Black Hat Hackers Such as updating your s…

[image] Aman_Bhatnagar: Having antivirus on Linux is something ridiculous in my opinion because its lot more secure than Windows and Mac [image] Linux is so secure! Windows is so insecure! Discussion Just recently I have mentioned how Linux is mostly just more secur…

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Aman_Bhatnagar:

Having antivirus on Linux is something ridiculous in my opinion because its lot more secure than Windows and Mac

Linux is so secure! Windows is so insecure! Discussion

Just recently I have mentioned how Linux is mostly just more secure, because it’s less popular, while essentially being technically just as prone to security errors, as e.g. Windows is. Now, a couple of days later, we get this, as if someone wished for it to surface:

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