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Ask HN: Do you still use antivirus software?
5 points by rukshn on April 8, 2023 | hide | past | favorite | 8 comments


I have a daily cronjob that runs Clam AV, rkhunter and a few others on my Linux laptop & home server. Never really detected anything but I don't even notice the scan running, contrary to any AV software I used on Windows.


We run ClamAV on our cloud VMs, it once found a bot program that participates in DDoS attacks.


At work I work on a system that processes uploads from partners we work with so we incorporate a virus scanner that scans everything that gets uploaded. This is a stand-alone product that scans a file at a time, it never scans the whole disk or does any real-time protection.


Yes, but I simply use the built-in Windows Defender. I've not bothered installing third-party AVs in years as they do not seem to be more reliable and many came with extra security issues (looking at you Comodo)


I just use the built in Windows Defender program on my Windows machine, and don't bother with anything on Mac OS or Linux.


Since I only use Chromebooks, I've no need for any antivirus software at all.


Do you still use Windows OS & software?

Linux multitude more immune, use it


https://linuxsecurity.com/features/linux-malware-the-truth-a...

Also it's not exactly easy to migrate operating systems.




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