Antivirus for Linux | Linux Security

30 thoughts on “Antivirus for Linux | Linux Security”

1. How is this today many go from windows to Linux much more Linux on the market now

2. Couple of years ago I was running MINT Mate as a dual boot with Win10. I stupidly downloaded a thumbnail image of someone I was chatting to in order to verify whether it was genuine. Trojan horse executed and filled my hard drive and RAM with gibberish so tightly, I was unable to execute any simple command. Toasted.

3. Bazzite being immutable must help such a situation, logic dictates they chose that method because the os will be running lots of executables from windows world and it’s a solid way to keep the distro locked down?

4. Hallo, seit Jahren ist es ein Problem der Anmeldung und Verlängerung der Lizenz!!!
   Eset läuft ab, aber ESET macht seit Jahren nichts zu einer leichteren Anmeldung und was ebenso schlecht ist die Verlängerung! Es wird zwar ein Hinweis angezeigt um zu verlängern, dieser hat aber eine Lizenz Nr.- Angaben die man nicht nutzen kann!!! Mit dieser EAV kann ESET dann mich nicht finden. Also wird seit Jahren kaum was für eine Vereinfachung des Kaufs oder Verlängerung getan. Warum man nicht mit dieser angezeigten EAV -Nr. nicht sofort weiter geleitet wird und kaufen kann, ist in der moderne der Computer ein Versagen der Leute für den Service!!!

5. It's not just 2% of the market. It's also who's in that market. Who's easier to hack? A system admin on Ubuntu or my 85 year old grandmother on her windows XP machine.

6. Windows 10 install screws up my Linux SSD by putting a EFI partition on it…grr

7. No need antivirus, I am using the dead distro… No one can give small effort to 0,0001% market share distro

8. Linux doesn't need a antivirus.
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   .linux is a antivirus for deadly virus called windows

9. I am virtualizing parrrotsec OS and Ubuntu 20.02. Because it's virtualized on a Windows host, do I need an AV?

10. thank you

11. I don't do anything windows. Never installed or used an Anti-Virus app. in Linux. I have been using GNU/Linux as my daily driver for 16 years and I never got a virus.

12. I agree that a 2% market share is really low, but I would think that those 2% make up a significant portion of the world's computing power. I mean think about it, all 500 of the 500 fastest supercomputers around the world all use GNU/Linux, and so do Google's servers, Amazon's servers, Facebook's servers, Twitter, Yahoo, NASA, CERN, Intel, IBM, NSA, etc. Why wouldn't anyone tap into that much energy/resource/power? Imagine mining bitcoin with any of these servers that you don't own. It would be like making a lot of money out of almost nothing other than skills and patience. (not that I'm suggesting that anyone do it)

    It's like saying, "Well, the super rich only make up 2% of the population, why would anyone try to steal from them when low and middle class population makes up 98%??"

13. I was using Fedora and had Sophos installed. I was visiting a grapefruit web site and Sophos blocked a drive-by infection, which one gets simply by looking at the web site.

    1. I wouldn't have even been aware of it had I not had an anti-virus installed.
    2. I was using Linux.

14. I am curious as I am currently debating getting a Linux computer. If I were to import a large number of pictures and mp3/4s from a Windows machine that, due to other users, I am unsure of how well its currently doing, along with potentially downloading a sizable number which may mean interfacing with users using Windows machines, what would be suggested? It would be my first and Im thinking of using Mint but dont know where to go for that as of posting.

15. I heard that Microsoft is thinking of making the next Windows using Linux. if they do this the popularity of Linux will skyrocket.

16. So, is there any real-time anti-virus (similar to AVAST) for linux?

17. I have no Antivirus 6 years later

18. Check out bedrock linux. Lets arch, fedora, centos, alpine linux, void, etc. run in a chroot on other machines by hijacking systemd and grub. Be careful though.

19. Let's say I wanted to dual-boot windows and Linux Mint 19.1 “Tessa” Cinnamon
    . Which antivirus would be recommended to use?

20. how to connect bluetooth device to a computer over linux.

21. Master clickbait thumbnail maker.
    I mean at least you put something that works and related

22. Question how plausible would it be for my duel booted laptop to obtain a virus while booting in Linux and getting virus in windows

23. Is the description automatically written in german, or was this intended?

24. Have you done one on rootkits and rootkit hunter?

25. There is NOTHING inherently more secure about a POSIX based OS (Linux/Unix)
    Linux on the desktop PC's has a low market-share (despite the kernel being everywhere) and if you're a virus designer, you need to pick a platform and that's gonna be the one with the largest target size, Windows. The second reason Linux and Unix aren't targeted too much is that its user base tends to be savvy enough with systems administration to make them a terrible target for a virus.

    The thing is though, viruses aren't really the "thing" anymore. Intrusion and data theft are the more pressing concern. Attacks are seeking PID (personal info data) that have value to the attacker. For Linux-y people that means getting to know firewalls and how to use them. The upside to that is, that its super EZmode to learn even for end users, the tools are simple

26. You need to be careful of java script, php, java, and some others. that is another hole that can be over looked. SE can help cover the holes, but if you do a lot of browsing, or host a public facing site, you really need something. Clam AV is good, just as Windows Defender is good. For something a bit more robust, SOPHOS has worked really well for me for the past 3 years, It is a set/forget, doesn't chew up resources, works VERY well with SE, and easy to maintain.

27. If you use Wine I would install a antivirus.

28. Since this is called "security" and not just "anti virus" I'll mention one important point overlooked here: DO NOT install dev tools on a production server! You always build your packages on another machine and move those packages to the production machine. Dev tools open up countless attack vectors. I mention this only because it's now so easy for unsophisticated users to deploy their own servers using tools like AWS.

    Nothing is completely secure. There was a worm in the early days of linux that replicated itself across thousands of production servers before it was contained. There are still virii that can replicate via web servers, but the end goal of those is still to infect Windows machines via the browser.

29. Not just don't past terminal commands, but if there is a curl, might as well look at what it will execute before executing that one. That one is important.

30. Yup, there is no known cases of a computer virus capable of replicating itself running on Linux or MacOS because of the inherent security built into Unix systems. The virus would need root access to your system in order to replicate, but in order to get your password it would also need install a keylogger, which it also needs root access for, making it almost impossible for a Virus to work unless the user themselves gives up their root password to the virus.

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