There’s a surprising lack of them, and rather too many people who say “if you get a virus in Linux you’re doing Linux wrong.” ClamAV is readily available but pretty basic, slow at scanning, not real-time, and erring on the side of false positives. The commercial options are all sold to businesses under those “contact us and we’ll tell you what it costs once we’ve figured out how much money you have” pages. And if you search for answers you find a lot of recommendations for AV products that don’t seem to exist any more.
A lot of those enterprise solutions like crowdstrike are a pain in the ass because they use a binary kernel module that supports like 5 kernels at most too
There’s a surprising lack of them, and rather too many people who say “if you get a virus in Linux you’re doing Linux wrong.” ClamAV is readily available but pretty basic, slow at scanning, not real-time, and erring on the side of false positives. The commercial options are all sold to businesses under those “contact us and we’ll tell you what it costs once we’ve figured out how much money you have” pages. And if you search for answers you find a lot of recommendations for AV products that don’t seem to exist any more.
A lot of those enterprise solutions like crowdstrike are a pain in the ass because they use a binary kernel module that supports like 5 kernels at most too