Re: [GTALUG] Microsoft Brings Defender Antivirus for Linux, Coming Soon for Android and iOS
Do you really need AV on linux? Last time i tried to hack any linux system with hacker software such as Metasploit I found Linux extremely robust, with very few vulnerabilities and exploits, all of which I could not get to work. I don't trust MS at all, and would not trust them enough to install this AV. Am I too suspicious? Don On Fri, 28 Feb 2020 at 02:44, ac via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
On Thu, 27 Feb 2020 16:50:07 -0500 Lennart Sorensen via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 03:16:37PM -0500, James Knott via talk wrote:
Well, they've certainly changed since Bill & Steve left. After all, they're now including Linux with Windows 10.
Not included. You have to enable support and then download it from the windows store. Almost included but not quite.
and... Outlook.com does not manage their abuse, they consider themselves a "bullet proof" spammer service, more so for their corporate clients whom frequently send out bulk email from noreply@ and with no verification of submitted email addresses.
Microsoft = Evil
Even though Google revoked their policy of "do not evil" at least they do not spam and they manage their abuse effectively.
my 1c
Andre
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On Fri, 28 Feb 2020 07:24:03 -0500 Don Tai <dontai.canada@gmail.com> wrote:
Do you really need AV on linux? Last time i tried to hack any linux system with hacker software such as Metasploit I found Linux extremely robust, with very few vulnerabilities and exploits, all of which I could not get to work. I don't trust MS at all, and would not trust them enough to install this AV. Am I too suspicious? Don
Nope, imho you are not suspicious enough... and pe on Linux is very real, normal users do hectic things, like open attachments from their email accounts, they visit websites allowing java and do all sorts of things some of us would not even think of doing. So, they probably do need some sort of AV, as exploiting their user accounts can probably be done by one of my children (having to actually say children instead of "kids" is crazy by itself...//k1Ddi3S) I am not a gambling person but I would bet dollars to doughnuts that their AV is not going to be fully open source and free. That said, I am a paranoid person - what I lack in gambling addiction I fully make up for in paranoia. So, yeah, no. Not suspicious enough, imnsho :)
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