“run it as root for maximum functionality.”
Russian-based company
Closed-source
Aims to enhance security
Hmm
It’s an older interview, but I like to bring this up whenever Kaspersky comes up as a topic:
If you had the power to change up to three things in the world today that are related to IT security, what would they be?
Internet design–that’s enough.
That’s it? What’s wrong with the design of the Internet?
There’s anonymity. Everyone should and must have an identification, or Internet passport. The Internet was designed not for public use, but for American scientists and the U.S. military. That was just a limited group of people–hundreds, or maybe thousands. Then it was introduced to the public and it was wrong…to introduce it in the same way.
Fuck that.
Yeah, I sure as shit wouldn’t use the internet if it wasn’t anonymous, seems like a weird thing to want when people are more concerned for their privacy than ever before.
So Kaspersky are starting to make Linux viruses then?
malware for linux system exists. maybe you’re just ignorant of it.
Kaspersky itself is malware.
Ever heard of Microsoft?
How is Microsoft related to a tool to scan Linux for malware?
Microsoft is a Malware itself.
Ok cool…
Apples grow on trees.
It’s a fact.
So much whoooosh
OP, you are fighting racists. There is no victory against brainwormed agenda parrots that do not care about merit.
Yes, and they have similar issues
10-foot pole ---------------- Kaspersky
Does it find itself?
Does western software find itself?
Kaspersky actually has a good track record of NOT being anything malicious (Except for old times when it seemed to flag pirate software quite often).
However, if the tool is closed-source, this is naturally against Linux ethos and is generally something to avoid, given extensive permissions.
I’m not sure I’d give Russian software root access to my systems.
What about 7zip?
I don’t give 7zip admin access to my system.
Well, on the other side I have Steam and most of the games there are closed source… Yes they run in user mode and (usually) don’t have kernel level access.
Yes, kernel level access is what makes it a much bigger deal.
This is very cool! Is it FOSS though? Kaspersky is doing good stuff, but I Antivirus is also problematic, and has like all the privileges you can get
I HIGHLY doubt that they would detect the XZ backdoor
xz --versionEven if it did, what would you do? rm -rf /?
Why? It’s not hard. They typically hash files and look for hits against a database of known vulnerabilities.
Yes and if viruses use something like base64 encoding or other methods, the hashes dont match anymore.
As far as I understood it, it is pretty easy to make your virus permanently un-hashable by just always changing some bits
The xz backdoor was a packaged file distributed with the standard packages though. It would be trivial to find.
This is obviously not about this known file.
It is about “would this scanner detect a system package from the official repos opening an ssh connection”
No thanks
How much are they paying you?
Support ClamAV instead of this trash
ClamAV is so bad, Windows Defender is twice as good. FOSS zealots are too blind.
“ClamAV is bad so instead of improving it I’m going to cuck to proprietary standards instead”
I never said ClamAV was good or bad, nor was that the point.
I’m going to cuck to proprietary standards
Open source will never compete with Kaspersky in security field. Security field requires extreme levels of meritocracy and a disposal of capital infrastructure as and when needed. The latter is beyond lacking in open source ecosystem, and will always be lacking. The former is also far from the level field at which Kaspersky plays.
If you do not understand this, you have failed digital security already. Lying to yourself is never going to solve problems.
So they have made a Linux antivirus?
ClamAV is the OG
AFAIK, clamAV hunts Window viruses, not Linux malware. The linux equivalent I know of is rkhunter.
There are plenty if Linux end point protection tools. However, I think the best protection is security patching.
Really? I just found enterprise grade e.g. server security tools. Most sites I found were ourdated, where the Linux EndpointSecurity tools were discontinued (even tho the server tools would probably as good as EndpointSecurity)
I am talking about enterprise grade
The amount of xenophobic racists in this thread are revealing themselves. Thank you OP. It proves they will disregard merit for supporting English fascism.
