On Mon, Feb 24, 2020 at 10:03:58AM +0100, to...@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.
