Installing Anti-Virus on Linux | Linux gets infected!

42 thoughts on “Installing Anti-Virus on Linux | Linux gets infected!”

1. What if you don't know what file or dir is infected? this isn't as simple as most av for windows which just has a scan system button.

2. Reading many user comments to hopefully learn something…..but, as most cannot even spell, how much do people really know? It goes beyond spelling: I see things such as "braking in" instead of "breaking in," or the typical "people is" instead of "people are." Obviously, people don't read, and therefore cannot spell.

3. I have yet to see an invulnerable system. There are more or less secure systems but usually the weak points are information the user freely gives out.

4. Excellent! I really liked the video, it was really helpful, thanks!

5. Can you kindly teach us how to enable the OnAccess Scan option? (I tried to follow the guide but my Terminal tells me different stories…) Thanks in advance.

6. can you show just the command line of clamav

7. Does it detect malware and sypware as well?

8. Linux can get infections in the browsers that is enough to cause certain problems we need protection.

9. I've been using clamscan for a while before I came across this video. I thought I was fairly safe myself, without any 'careless' behavior, but my latest scan found two trojans attached to PDF files.

10. I have clam installed on my laptop with mint installed, I just like having it there to scan external drives, and downloaded files. It gives me (most likely a false) sense of security

11. ClamAV routinely finds and identifies legitimate code required by the OS and programs as potential viruses. If you don't recognize this issue you could well tank the OS or render software inoperable.

12. Was on ubuntu 20.04 trying to play rpcs3 in a virtual guest win10, on an older pc. 😅 virus scan coming back clean, unit keeps freezing 🥶.

13. As along time windows user switching to linux I understand the paranoia of viruses. So I'm glad I'm not the only one out there.

14. the issue with clamav is that it takes 3 days to a week to finish scanning, with linux popularity and especially steamOS for steamdeck, a better solution for antivirus might become usefull even for the average user.

15. OK Clam is in the linux mint repository and installed both programs
    TY

16. how do i uninstall that

17. One virus, two VIRA!

18. What do you think about flathub authenticator? It oddly took forever to install… normally my machine take seconds. I am suspicious at this point 🙂

19. hey man, thanks for this informative video…. 3 years old, but still good…. Off topic, how do i customize my task bar like yours?

20. this is perfect for downloading ramdom pdfs

21. Sometime my keyboard stop responding and it types something randomly and sometime if am watching a youtube video it randomly starts to skip 10 second to end the video and autoplay next video and the process goes on till i reboot it.Please help bro

22. does this work for POP os?

23. I installed clamav on my linux server. Just to check and remove if my user have some infected php / php backdoor files

    I combined it with maldet

24. That app looks chinese

25. impossible

26. The melware "Kite" is very annoying to uninstall. if you could provide some tips on that.Thank you.

27. That was awful.

28. Why do you use chrome come on man

29. What linux os he is using? I have no idea on linux os xD

30. Be a guest problem solved😂

31. if you don't add AURs, why even would you, you are mostly secure.

32. Ran ClamAV on 'computer'… Many viruses were found in LibreOffice… like 60. Are these real or false positives? This happened today 10-10-20.

33. Thanks Chris

34. I heard the antivirus called “Common Sense” was the best of all. Is it true ?

35. The only things I need to scan is the files/torrent I download on internet (movies,pdfs etc)

36. WINE is the worst for viruses, if you WINE installed and you download windows executable files from the internet

37. You want to see your linux server get infected? Go ahead put public IP address in your server, change root password to "1234567890", wait say 5 minutes, and then look at processes, you will see new apps that you never heard of suddenly pop up. Congrats, your server is now SSH brute-forced. 5 to 10 minutes tops.

38. Another virus from China? What a despicable country and people.

39. Not all attacks require the victim's complicity. All software has bugs. Linux is not as secure as people often think.

40. Just put an N95 mask on your computer…

41. I think this is whats goin round…I have those lost and found files and all kinds of no access messages when i try to do shreds and dd's…I tried clam that wont update, says 0 definitions installed and when i try it says OK You updated GJ! and still no definitions. is there a manual update method for definitions? How do i make it scan stuff i cant access? can i just do super reformat and reclaim entire drive?

42. I dont use antivirus, i just backup my system

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