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1. Narbray (narbray@varishangout.net)'s status on Saturday, 18-Mar-2023 11:53:16 JST Narbray

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   ok a little late my post of today but here I am
   
   I'm going to take the opportunity to tell my experience with antivirus, open source and linux
   
   >keep in mind that I consider myself a total noob in all this software stuff, do not do what I do and do not take into account what I say, talking about viruses and linux is a very sensitive issue for the community and I understand it, but this is just my personal experience and everyone decides what to do at their own risk.
   
   i have been using linux for more than a year now and i don't use window at all, before i used to worry a lot about antivirus but i couldn't find one that i liked and after trying many and not being able to pay for one, i started to think that window already had a free antivirus, and so i started to use only window defender in my pc, of course i trained myself a lot in common sense against viruses, probably the best weapon against this some say and eventually i stopped worrying about antivirus, when I started to switch to open source I tried ClamAV on window, a headache I couldn't even make it work well and it was incredibly slow so I discarded it pretty fast and went back to my window defender, until I switched to Linux, and as linux didn't bring antivirus I started to wonder which one I should install, but things in linux are very different there were not many options so I went back to ClampAV, slow and consumed a lot of resources and did not end up convincing me, everyone even in the linux mint community told me that I did not need antivirus in linux, for the way linux works it is true that it is much more difficult for a virus can do something on your pc, but I think it is a bit questionable to recommend a novice user not to use an antivirus and less in a system based on ubuntu, however not being able to find a decent antivirus for linux I took a decision, I will not use any antivirus and over time I have simply downplayed the importance of antivirus and no longer think they are necessary (at least for me) so I do not use any on my mobile beyond the one that comes installed by default (based on trustlook), of course as I said in the first post I still use VirusTotal although I recommend Hybrid Analysis (https: //www. hybrid-analysis.com/) which I believe is superior and is not google, I use it to analyze links and small files and thus add an 'extra layer of protection', I also started using Firejail, a tool that allows you to run programs in a controlled environment and thus if you get infected with a virus limit this wreak havoc on your system, in fact I run all my browsers through firejail and is an application almost invisible you do not even notice it is there (firejail is also very easy to configure).
   
   To sum up my experience taught me that I did not need an antivirus on my devices, and currently I do not recommend my friends to install antivirus, but if I warn them to keep in mind that if you install things outside the official stores will be running risks, which is quite ironic being that I always recommend that they do not use the play store ...
   
   so far I have had no problems with viruses, not that I have noticed and I'm doing very well this way, so even if clamAV improved a lot I doubt if I would install it, anyway clamAV I think it has a lot to work on especially optimize its performance a bit as it is slow and consumes a lot of resources but unfortunately there are not many open source options to choose from.