On Mon, 2018-09-03 at 05:16 -0400, Joerg Lechner via users wrote: AFAIK the only use most people have for AV software on Linux is when they're running a mail server and want to filter certain kinds of spam from reaching their Windows users. I do online banking in Fedora and have never installed AV software. My bank also has a general warning about using AV (which they seem to use as a catch-all term for any kind of anti-malware). I just ignore it. [BTW, anyone else see the irony that most banking websites will not let you use a password manager?]. poc

On Mon, 3 Sep 2018 at 15:45, Doug <dmcgarrett(a)optonline.net&gt; wrote: ClamAV is widely supported, but, like all AV software, is "high maintenance" due to the need to constantly update pattern databases and the overhead of scanning. If a linux system has files that have been touched by a Windows system then it is a good idea to use clamav. One approach is to schedule scans of your "at risk" directories for off-peak times. Windows AV sw normally combines on-demand scans with periodic full filesystem scans. Several years ago ClamAV had problems with on-demand scanning but is now using fanotify: https://blog.clamav.net/2016/03/configuring-on-access-scanning-in-clamav.... MacOS has ClamAV. A mac user I know was at a meeting with high-ranking military and government participants. The meeting documants were shared by passing a USB key around. ClamAV on the lone mac in the room identified malware on the USB key. It is safe to assume that all the windows boxes were running current mainstream commercial AV sw. Malware authors test against "current mainstream commercial AV sw" but apparently ClamAV wasn't on the list. -- George N. White III

On 09/03/2018 09:52 PM, Frédéric wrote: SoftWare