I'm afraid the only way for people to finally stop installing AV stuff under Linux would be if someone supplied a properly made patch in the kernel to prevent them from loading their modules in the first place...Pjotr wrote:This "crusade" is ongoing, for the foreseeable future.... Beginners don't read old threads on this forum, so they'll keep asking the same questions about antivirus.
Be prepared to answer them monthly or even weekly. That's how it is. Old Windows habits die hard.
Could also be exposed to end-users with a standard grub2 switch, av_kernel_hooks_disable=1 (default)... oh wait, then they'd detect the kernel as malware...
It's the absolute definition of placebo with a dose of snake oil thrown in for a good measure...
There are more than 600 million samples out there. And approximately 12 million samples created for Windows on every month that passes. Yes, 12 million on Windows every single month -> read it even from people in the AV industry themselves.
For a numbers' comparison...there are currently approximately 3000 fatal car accidents in the whole of Europe every month: and you still drive happily - you just use common sense, ie. you make sure that you wear your belt & that you 'don't drink & drive'.
How many have their been on Linux? 200? 300? Exaggerate and say maybe 2000 in...27 years?
27 x 12 = 324 months. So, at worst case scenario...6 per month?
3000 / 6...so it is 500 times safer than...common daily driving? Not to mention that it's even safer than that, considering that even among those, lots are either long time now inactive or merely proof-of-concepts....
Why people insist on using such under Linux is something that absolutely escapes me...
Even John McAfee, this extra-controversial figure who became a multi-millionaire by making the 1st commercial AV ever in 1987, stated himself a couple of yrs ago:
"anti-virus software is dead, it no longer works...the new paradigm has to stop the hacker getting in before they can do damage."
...O Rly? 'Cause -go figure!- that's exactly what Linux (& BSDs) have been doing all along since day 1...
It works (and has been proved to work) just fine all along - bring the cops in, and you can be certain the criminals will follow on afterwards...