While there are some virii in the wild that try to attack Unix/Linux systems, they are generally not effective, because they can't make the connection to sudo.Įmail is probably the best way for a virus to enter your system. If it knows your user name and your sudo password, then it can play with most directories and wreak havoc all day long. That's the problem that a virus in Linux has to figure out. If a virus somehow figures out your password for sudo use, then your system is probably not safe. The chances are, with that assumption, that if you find no virus infected files in /home, you're safe.ĭepending on how your user is set up in groups and how the permissions are setup in your system - other than your /home, if you find an infected file somewhere in /home, your system is probably safe and all you have is some infected files, which might be fixed. So, assuming that you never use root to access email or the internet in general, you can check your /home directory, and subs. The more folders you have it check, the longer it will take to run. Why not leave it installed? Is it because your version does run in the background, but you have said that this is not an issue I was wondering why you install and remove the programme. So, as long as Linux is intrinsically and relatively safe - and that may not be forever - I don't use a Linux antivirus or anti-malware.I don't think that my version of clamav and clamtk can run in the background, so resource hogging is not an issue. So, as long as Linux is intrinsically and relatively safe - and that may not be forever - I don't use a Linux antivirus or anti-malware. You can't offload your own responsibility. Being a healthy skeptic is as important to security as any tool. There's a lot of information that floats around, only some of which is actual knowledge, and only a tiny fraction of which is real wisdom. It's been a long time since I've opened that offer of millions of dollars, or the needful "friend". When I get a an email, and it doesn't feel right, it gets trashed. The next priority for me is to avoid click-bait and be very careful where I go in that wonderful thing called the internet. So for now, I don't have it.įollow the prime principle of keeping the OS and applications up to date. It can be a resource hog, but again on my machine it is hardly ever noticeable.
I'm not clearly convinced that it's always necessary, and on my machine its presence or absence seems to make no clear difference. From time to time I install it and then later remove it. Having clam and clamtk is not a bad thing.
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