Comment on Alternative to ClamAV?
peter@feddit.uk 1 year agoZero days aren’t the only way you get viruses. Misconfiguration and social engineering are both vectors that are OS agnostic.
Comment on Alternative to ClamAV?
peter@feddit.uk 1 year agoZero days aren’t the only way you get viruses. Misconfiguration and social engineering are both vectors that are OS agnostic.
tuff_wizard@aussie.zone 1 year ago
But do antivirus really help with that? Is it going to check for open ports and see if the service listening has a strong password?
You can’t program against social engineering or missconfiguration, and because those are the only real vulnerabilities in Linux there’s no need for antivirus.
peter@feddit.uk 1 year ago
No but it can’t do that on Windows either, all it can do is detect an infection and attempt to remove it. Same process would be applicable on Linux.