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Re: Anti-malware for my personal Debian workstation?

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On Sun, Feb 23, 2020, 15:13 Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> wrote:

>         Hi.
>
> On Sun, Feb 23, 2020 at 02:07:00PM -0500, Philippe LeCavalier wrote:
> > On Sun, Feb 23, 2020, 14:04 Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> wrote:
> >
> > > > defense in depth / layered defense... would you recommend having a
> Linux
> > > > anti-malware?
> > >
> > > No.  All those only try to recognize known threats.  When a threat is
> > > known, the security hole it exploits is also known, and the fix for it
> > > already exists as well, so updating your distribution to the latest
> > > security fixes is a better solution since it doesn't just protect you
> > > from those known threats but it also protects you from unknown threats
> > > using the same security holes.
> >
> > That's not true. Sophos has ai learning and threat analysis mitigation
> > tactics built in.
>
> An impressive mitigation tactic indeed [1]:
>
> September 2012: Sophos' anti-virus suite identified various
> update-mechanisms, including its own, as malware. If it was configured
> to automatically delete detected files, Sophos Antivirus could render
> itself unable to update, required manual intervention to fix the
> problem.
>
>
> That and promoting non-free software here, at this list? Boo.
>
> [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antivirus_software
>
> Reco
>

Mistakes happen. Dear mongering is a more useless tactic ;) you can point a
bad scenario in every single product or project imaginable. It is
inevitable.

>
>

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