I have default windows defender, but didnt even know its antivirus lol. Is there any antivirus installed by default on any popular linux distro? What do you use?

I feel like antivirus can just annoy me when trying to crack something, but maybe defender protects me and im not aware.

  • idkman@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Windows defender is more than enough. On Linux, you don’t need one, but there’s clamAV, which scan for windows viruses.

    • zxo@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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      1 year ago

      There are still viruses for Linux to watch out for, but they are much rarer to come by, so I don’t have an antivirus on my Linux machine.

        • zxo@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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          1 year ago

          Rootkits still can exist for Linux, but because there are more Windows users and thus more to be gained from a Windows virus of any sort, it would be pretty hard to find a rootkit for Linux.