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  • nexusband@lemmy.worldtoSelfhosted@lemmy.worldAlternative to ClamAV?
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    1 year ago

    …some Linux machines definitely need anti-virus software. Samba or NFS servers, for instance, may store documents in undocumented, vulnerable Microsoft formats, such as Word and Excel, that contain and propagate viruses. Linux mail servers should run AV software in order to neutralize viruses before they show up in the mailboxes of Outlook and Outlook Express users.[

    Which is exactly what I said. ClamAV serves a very specific purpose and that’s this one.

    There are still no viruses for Linux specifically designed to break in to Linux, because it’s not possible.


  • nexusband@lemmy.worldtoSelfhosted@lemmy.worldAlternative to ClamAV?
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    There are none. ClamAV is the only one there is, because it has a very specific and narrow purpose. There are no viruses for Linux.

    Chrootkit and rkhunter are also built for very specific things (detecting rootkits - or making them) and are not designed to protect, they are designed to analyse.

    My writing here also isn’t specifically to OP, but to all others that may find this thread - Anti Virus for Linux is BS and unless you are running SMB and still have lots of Windows in your network, it’s absolutely not needed, especially if you follow the basics (like not doing stuff as root, using sudo and not giving out any system rights).