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Is clamav a good antivirus? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 2 months ago by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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I was reading on the web that clamav is not an "endpoint antivirus solution" but at the same time its called the best antivirus for gnu/linux and gnu/linux servers. Is worth for a desktop/personal computer?

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[–] 2 points 2 months ago (1 child)

I've heard it is possible to put a virus even into an image, and I might actually be a victim of such an attack... But yeah, it is extremely rare

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    Targeting Linux distributions is even less likely because unlike Windows or MacOS there is no "official" viewer for a kind of document, being image, video, text, etc but rather only the one that the distribution picked but that even during the installation process the user might ignore or replace. So the attack on the media would have to work for any viewer which seems basically impossible.

    Technically possible yes but practically impossible at scale, it would have to be targeting a specific user and then it's a totally different situation.

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