I was reading on the web that clamav is not an “endpoint antivirus solution” but at the same time its called the best antivirus for gnu/linux and gnu/linux servers. Is worth for a desktop/personal computer?

  • throwaway403@programming.dev
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    7 hours ago

    That depends.

    If this is a Linux guest on a Linux host and both are just your average distros, then it’s fine~ish. It’s not 100% safe as some malware is able to escape a VM, see this for a recent example of this.

    Doing your shady stuff within a disposable air-gapped[1] VM on a RISC-V powered Sculpt OS host should be pretty safe, though.

    1. In this context, I just mean it has only had the least amount of possible privileges/capabilities during its lifetime. ↩︎