As someone who may obtain games and shows/movies through less than rights holder approved methods, ClamAV is a necessity.
Not just for the pirate though. If you share any files between nix and win OS’s. I wouldn’t want to share any computer std with those I care for, friend, family or business.
There are also cool tools like
chkrootkitandrkhunterthat might come in handy.
I just switched to linux and totally forgot about this. Do I really not need one? 99% of what I do is steam gaming anyway so I’m not too worried, worst case I just format and reinstall, but still…
ClamAV in the corner, visibly annoyed
Its powerful but sadly not realtime
Oh, not true anymore:
https://docs.clamav.net/manual/Usage/Scanning.html#on-access-scanning
That’s great news thanks for telling
A few years ago I found a text (probably as image) where somebody ‘tried’ to run a virus on linux. It went something like this:
Wanted to install a virus on Ubuntu, but it was only available as an aur package. Tried converting. Didn’t work … Tried
make virus, but didn’t work. Upgraded cmake, tried again, but some libraries were missing.Tried installing libraries, but they were very outdated and I couldn’t find proper versions.
Checked the source to see what the libs were doing and replaced them.
and so on.
Does someone know what I’m talking about and possibly has the source?
Not sure how to actually post an image, but this I think is one.
Gripping the bitcoin wallet and paying $5 out of pity is my favorite part :)
Image in post or comment:
You can add alt text in the square brackets, but many apps won’t show it.
This then renders as
Yes. No.
I think I also remember somebody ran Wannacry under Wine with completely expected results.
Not having inter-distro binary compatibility is a blessing in disguise.
Y’all just have too many dependencies
Different glibc version says hello.
libc is a dependency
Does anyone have an idea what would happen if one runs a Windows virus with Wine ?
Can only access Wine’s directory not your actual Linux files
That’s just not true in many cases. It can usually access your home directory.
And the viruses that write themselves to the boot sectors of the hard drive?
They simply can’t because its designed to do that on windows not on Linux because they are different. Plus use ClamAV and you should be good. (I am not an expert in this)
I suppose if there was a wine config that had an appropriate dosdevice setup for the boot sector then it’d be able to write to it, but wine doesn’t need to boot so I don’t think that would do anything.
Some interesting answers.
EDIT: even better.
What anti-virus sudo you use?
Microsoft Defender 😊
… Sucks.
That was 5 years ago, it’s actually pretty decent now…
Btw, I was just trolling…
It keeps trying to tell me that FileZilla is a Trojan.
Probably because FileZilla requires special access to personal files and WD probably knows It’ll try to send them elsewhere
The things that trigger antivirus software aren’t just hashes anymore, it’s the behavior of the software on your machine… That’s why I said it’s better now…
Weird how that doesn’t happen for other FTP or file transfer apps.
Oh, wait… I just remembered… users have reported that Filezilla does by itself install malware/bundleware, unless you’re very careful to untick some boxes during the installation… IT IS malicious that they install other stuff on your machine and it’s hard for you to find what exactly they installed…
See the Negative reviews on Alternativeto
i dont know I still dont trust microsoft
/usr/bin/brain
bash: /usr/bin/brain: No such file or directory
:(
s/t/f/u
rude
???
When you get to server levels it’s about making sure the firewall rules are filtering correctly. Need external access for support, while blocking script kiddies attempts to gain ssh access. (Figuratively speaking)
