Privacy friendly Ubuntu antivirus ?

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• stifle867@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Again, seriously question why you need this but you could look into ClamAV. If you’re coming from Windows you’re going to be in for a shock if you blindly try and adapt every concept from Windows straight to Linux.

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  • QuazarOmega@lemy.lol ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s not a bad thing to have an antivirus, especially now that we see more viruses made for Linux specifically. I still don’t worry much myself, because the number isn’t that huge, but if there was an easy to use antivirus GUI app I think I’d try it

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    • stifle867@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Anyone is welcome to install an AV on their device if they so choose. I was more alluding to the fact that there are many things you should be doing to prevent malicious programs from running on your computer in the first place. By the time it makes it onto your system you’re really just hoping that an AV would happen to catch it.

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• giacomo@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Clam

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• mahony@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I recommend this video from Rob Braxman, just came out recently: invidious.flokinet.to/watch?v=mE7CCZCgRB8

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• backhdlp@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  You’re pretty save without an Antivirus on Linux (we’re just 3%, not worth it for hackers), but if you need to check files, VirusTotal is your friend.

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• GnomeComedy@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  You’d be better served learning how to setup and use:

  • backups (and test them)
  • automate your reinstall (see ansible)
  • firewalld
  • fail2ban
  • SELinux (RHEL/Fedora) or AppArmor (Ubuntu)
  • disable SSH via password, use keys only

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  • whale@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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    • GnomeComedy@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Everyone’s security profike/needs are different. The point is that list does a hell of a lot more useful than ClamAV

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  • neosheo@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    For the automating of reinstalls what do you mean?

    Is it just a playbook that installs the distro, them installs the same packages, and then restores things like /home from backup?

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    • GnomeComedy@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That, and:

      • put down config files that were modified
      • enable/start services that were installed
      • modify the firewall to open necessary ports

      Basically: put everything back as it was right before the ransomware encrypted your entire system on you.

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