I have always heard not to use antivirus on Linux but I saw the post about a guy getting a RAT exploit backdoored through wine and it had me thinking should I be using ClamAV or some other antivirus for Linux?

  • Ooops@feddit.org
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    7 hours ago

    it’s getting more prevalent as more stuff (especially servers) run on Linux […] Linux’s days of living in “security through obscurity” are over"

    Servers are primarily running Linux for decades. So any security through obscurity would be gone for as long, if it even existed ever…

    though I’ll admit to not having tested that sort of thing with Wine/Proton installed

    The more primitive the better the chances. And there are some really primitive cases of ransonware perfectly happy with running through Wine and encrypting your files. So limiting Wine’s file access (or better running it as a separate unpriviledged user with no access to anything but your games) is always a good idea.