Way forward to on-access antivirus in Linux

Posted Nov 9, 2019 21:28 UTC (Sat) by amacater (subscriber, #790)
In reply to: Way forward to on-access antivirus in Linux by Cyberax
Parent article: Filesystem sandboxing with eBPF

Linux is no longer niche - it's universal. Exploitable root hole every three months? Please be so good as to look at the average Mean Time to Repair [MTTR] in Linux and common applications and compare this to the speed of comparable patching in the commercial applications.

If, say, Amazon and the Linux components of Microsoft's Azure are too small to be regarded, please advise what you regard as important.

Way forward to on-access antivirus in Linux

Posted Nov 9, 2019 21:31 UTC (Sat) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link]

Android is universal. Desktop Linux is not, it barely exists.

> Exploitable root hole every three months? Please be so good as to look at the average Mean Time to Repair [MTTR] in Linux and common applications and compare this to the speed of comparable patching in the commercial applications.
Uh, what? Most IoT and Android devices are not repaired at all, they just exist in a vulnerable state.

The only thing preventing mass infections are gatekeepers in Play Store and the fact that most IoT devices don't execute arbitrary code.