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Re: Anti-malware for my personal Debian workstation?

From	Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Anti-malware for my personal Debian workstation?
Date	2020-02-24 15:50 +0100
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On Mon, Feb 24, 2020 at 10:03:58AM +0100, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> I totally agree with Stefan: for an OS
> with a working and transparent patch/release cycle, "classical" AV
> strategy is nonsense.

The only sensible use of an anti-virus program on Linux is on a mail
server (or certain kinds of firewalls/proxies), to detect Windows viruses
that are passing through.

The use of an anti-virus program on Linux, which attempts to detect
Linux viruses, is patently ridiculous.  There just *aren't* any.  That
isn't the threat model that you need to worry about.

When you're talking about Linux security, on desktops, you're mostly
looking for holes in web browsers, office suites, media players, etc.

On Linux servers, you're looking for holes in the network services
that are exposed to the world.

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Anti-malware for my personal Debian workstation? l0f4r0@tuta.io - 2020-02-23 09:50 +0100
  Re: Anti-malware for my personal Debian workstation? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2020-02-23 10:00 +0100
  Re: Anti-malware for my personal Debian workstation? Ivan Jurišić <ivan@jurisic.org> - 2020-02-23 10:20 +0100
    Re: Anti-malware for my personal Debian workstation? deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2020-02-23 20:00 +0100
  Re: Anti-malware for my personal Debian workstation? mlnl <mlnl@mailbox.org> - 2020-02-23 13:10 +0100
    Re: Anti-malware for my personal Debian workstation? Philippe LeCavalier <support@plecavalier.com> - 2020-02-23 18:40 +0100
      Re: Anti-malware for my personal Debian workstation? mlnl <mlnl@mailbox.org> - 2020-02-23 19:40 +0100
    Re: Anti-malware for my personal Debian workstation? Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeovanis@gmail.com> - 2020-02-23 19:00 +0100
    Re: Anti-malware for my personal Debian workstation? Ben Lavender <ben@airnet.org.uk> - 2020-02-23 20:40 +0100
  Re: Anti-malware for my personal Debian workstation? Philippe LeCavalier <support@plecavalier.com> - 2020-02-23 20:10 +0100
    Re: Anti-malware for my personal Debian workstation? Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2020-02-23 21:20 +0100
      Re: Anti-malware for my personal Debian workstation? Philippe LeCavalier <support@plecavalier.com> - 2020-02-23 23:10 +0100
    Re: Anti-malware for my personal Debian workstation? Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2020-02-23 23:30 +0100
      Re: Anti-malware for my personal Debian workstation? Philippe LeCavalier <support@plecavalier.com> - 2020-02-24 00:40 +0100
        Re: Anti-malware for my personal Debian workstation? deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2020-02-24 07:50 +0100
        Re: Anti-malware for my personal Debian workstation? Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2020-02-24 14:50 +0100
    Re: Anti-malware for my personal Debian workstation? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2020-02-24 10:10 +0100
      Re: Anti-malware for my personal Debian workstation? Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-02-24 15:50 +0100
  Re: Anti-malware for my personal Debian workstation? Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2020-02-23 20:10 +0100

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