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Re: Anti-malware for my personal Debian workstation?

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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.
> >
> >
> >         Stefan
> >
> That's not true. Sophos has ai learning and threat analysis mitigation
> tactics built in.

And a lot of snake oil to boot. I totally agree with Stefan: for an OS
with a working and transparent patch/release cycle, "classical" AV
strategy is nonsense.

Besides, the real threats are elsewhere these days, cf. [1] (hint:
the data you care about isn't in /usr/bin).

Cheers

[1] https://xkcd.com/1200/

-- tomás

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