On Sun, Feb 23, 2020, 15:13 Reco <recovery...@enotuniq.net> wrote: > Hi. > > On Sun, Feb 23, 2020 at 02:07:00PM -0500, Philippe LeCavalier wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 23, 2020, 14:04 Stefan Monnier <monn...@iro.umontreal.ca> > wrote: > > > > > > defense in depth / layered defense... would you recommend having a > Linux > > > > anti-malware? > > > > > > No. All those only try to recognize known threats. When a threat is > > > known, the security hole it exploits is also known, and the fix for it > > > already exists as well, so updating your distribution to the latest > > > security fixes is a better solution since it doesn't just protect you > > > from those known threats but it also protects you from unknown threats > > > using the same security holes. > > > > That's not true. Sophos has ai learning and threat analysis mitigation > > tactics built in. > > An impressive mitigation tactic indeed [1]: > > September 2012: Sophos' anti-virus suite identified various > update-mechanisms, including its own, as malware. If it was configured > to automatically delete detected files, Sophos Antivirus could render > itself unable to update, required manual intervention to fix the > problem. > > > That and promoting non-free software here, at this list? Boo. > > [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antivirus_software > > Reco >
Mistakes happen. Dear mongering is a more useless tactic ;) you can point a bad scenario in every single product or project imaginable. It is inevitable. > >
