Kaspersky releases free tool that scans Linux for known threats

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Kaspersky releases free tool that scans Linux for known threats
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Kaspersky actually has a good track record of NOT being anything malicious (Except for old times when it seemed to flag pirate software quite often).

However, if the tool is closed-source, this is naturally against Linux ethos and is generally something to avoid, given extensive permissions.

They actually had a good track record but I think a FSB stooge took a board position and at that point...

Well, on the other side I have Steam and most of the games there are closed source... Yes they run in user mode and (usually) don't have kernel level access.

Yes, kernel level access is what makes it a much bigger deal.

Yay, let's install Spyware on our Linux computers 👌

This is very cool! Is it FOSS though? Kaspersky is doing good stuff, but I Antivirus is also problematic, and has like all the privileges you can get

I HIGHLY doubt that they would detect the XZ backdoor

Even if it did, what would you do? rm -rf /?

XZ is part of the core system

Why? It's not hard. They typically hash files and look for hits against a database of known vulnerabilities.

Yes and if viruses use something like base64 encoding or other methods, the hashes dont match anymore.

As far as I understood it, it is pretty easy to make your virus permanently un-hashable by just always changing some bits

The xz backdoor was a packaged file distributed with the standard packages though. It would be trivial to find.

This is obviously not about this known file.

It is about "would this scanner detect a system package from the official repos opening an ssh connection"

Sorry, I was responding to:

I HIGHLY doubt that they would detect the XZ backdoor

That doesn't work against polymorphic malware

I think the best way is to monitor calls and behavior. Doing that is a privacy nightmare

First is it open source, and why do they made a such tool? 😂

So they have made a Linux antivirus?

There are plenty if Linux end point protection tools. However, I think the best protection is security patching.

For personal use I don't think there is any good malware detection tools. I think you just need to harden your browser and not install random packages from online. Best if you stick with distro repos only.

Really? I just found enterprise grade e.g. server security tools. Most sites I found were ourdated, where the Linux EndpointSecurity tools were discontinued (even tho the server tools would probably as good as EndpointSecurity)