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I am confused about installing some virus scanning software on my Linux system. Thought of installing clamav, so will that be good or if anyone is using any better one, please do suggest. Thanks in advance.

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[–] pressanykeynow@iusearchlinux.fyi 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Don't think Clamav does scanning of everything you launch, it works on files you request to scan usually for mail or file servers. The result is not that great from my experience though neither are with kaspersky or eset and they actually ask money for that.

Why do you need an antivirus? Do you plan installing viruses? It's pretty uncommon request for Linux desktop as you'd have to put some effort to finding and running some Linux virus(actually, please dm if you find one).

[–] Pingu@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I didn't know if we have to scan files manually in it.

I just want to make my system more protected, because it's said that linux is more prone to attacks than windows. So maybe I just need a software which can monitor if everything is going good. and I am a newbie in linux, so sorry if that question sounded vague.

[–] EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Who says Linux viruses are more common than Windows viruses? That just sounds patently false. Why would someone have more incentive to do that? The point of a virus is to infect a computer. Why would someone spend hours developing a virus for a desktop operating system that only comprises a mere 1.2% of the market share?

[–] Pingu@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I get it now, looked it up. Was just being paranoid maybe.

[–] EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not saying an antivirus would be a bad thing. It all depends on your threat model. I was merely responding to that one point you made. :)

[–] Pingu@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago

I understand your point

[–] AlbyEvent@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I use ClamAV to scan files (🏴‍☠️) I download from not so trusted sources from the internet, you don't really need an antivirus for Linux.

[–] lengsel@latte.isnot.coffee -3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Running an antivirus on Linux only addresses a psychosomatic issue, it is of no benefit and produces zero positive results.

[–] JoeKrogan@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not true. If its a file server or mail server or something similar you can catch something before other users download it. The detection is always going to be dependent on the signatures but to say it is of no benefit is simply false.

[–] XTL@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yes. And even then you're filtering windows viruses. Nothing that could or would run on the server or even in any client that isn't an ancient version of outlook.

Those seem to have pretty much disappeared in the last decade of not before. No vulnerable systems, no infections. No infections, no viruses being sent. There is still potential for scanning somewhere but intrusion detection and spam filtering is more realistic than viruses.

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