Good morning, (replying to a few messages at once) > Linux has no viruses. There are actually *two* reasons for starting this thread. First, to get advice needed to choose the right "anti-virus" for my home workstation. Second, I believe that the article that I referenced would be of real interest to many of this list's members. The article makes it very clear that there is malware targeting Linux systems. I really recommend a good, careful reading of the article. > ... However, as Linux is often used to provide services to other systems ... I agree, and that's part of what the article focuses on. In my case, this is a stand-alone home workstation. > The group may be independent and objective, but running tests with known malware samples > is easy to do and not particularly helpful. What is more important than %detection of some > collection of known malware is the track record of the vendor -- do they detect new variants of > old malware? How quickly do they distribute database updates? Do the tests include 3rd party > AV database updates ... Thank-you George! I needed that reminder. I agree. > Other testing organizations: https://www.av-comparatives.org > https://www.icsalabs.com/ https://www.nsslabs.com/ I will check those out. Thank-you. > Given that the US government has limited use of Kaspersky software ... I recall hearing about that in the news within the past couple of weeks, but I forgot which company the report focused on. Thanks. I agree with your point. As advised in a separate recent thread, I've shut down sshd. I use "rkhunter" and "chkrootkit" as advised in a thread some 4 tears ago. I have "NoScript", "uBlock Origin", and "Better Privacy" add-ons in my Firefox, and I think Firefox itself tries to minimize or block some data-gathering ("browser fingerprinting"?). I have Firefox set to not keep history, and to delete cache when exiting. But there's spoofing, ever-cookies, phishing, browser and canvas fingerprinting, stegaongraphic concealment, and how many others that I haven't yet heard of. I recall that last year (?), some phishing scam was good enough to fool some government chief of some government security agency. I'm fallible too. So I believe it would be a good idea to have and use good anti-malware on my system. It's the workstation anti-malware that I'm interested in, not the server anti-malware. Thank-you, everyone. Bill. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
