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Re:Ask HN: What antivirus software do you use? by moviuro on Monday December 10, 2018 @04:03AM (#18646344)
Depends on usage. Going to browse sketchy websites all day? Probably need something.

Just doing dev work on Linux and also Thinking before clicking(TM)? Probably CommonSense2018(C) will be enough.

Keep in mind that AV software also runs as very high authority on a system, and they all had serious vulnerabilities, annoying popups, etc.

A lying DNS + IP blacklist could also help protect you. see for UNIX-like systems e.g. https://gitlab.com/moviuro/moviuro.bin/blob/master/blackhole & https://gitlab.com/moviuro/moviuro.bin/blob/master/lie-to-me

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