Re:Ask HN: What do you use to protect your Linux box from ma...
by rapnie on Saturday January 11, 2020 @01:53AM
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Thank you for the info. I generally work according to the best-practices you outline.
> There is no software that will run a scan and give you a green check. If there is one like that, I wouldn't trust it either.
Are you advising against running ClamAV, chkrootkit and rkhunter? I know they won't give 100% guarantee, but something better than nothing, I thought.
I am most worried about my developer machine, as I have testdrived numerous OSS projects, with different stacks, package managers, etc. Fetched billions of npm packages, and browsed gazillion sites for tech advice (using FF, Privacy Badger, uBlock, but still).
A clean reinstall may be in order, but it'll cost so much time getting all config I now have in place again.
> There is no software that will run a scan and give you a green check. If there is one like that, I wouldn't trust it either.
Are you advising against running ClamAV, chkrootkit and rkhunter? I know they won't give 100% guarantee, but something better than nothing, I thought.
I am most worried about my developer machine, as I have testdrived numerous OSS projects, with different stacks, package managers, etc. Fetched billions of npm packages, and browsed gazillion sites for tech advice (using FF, Privacy Badger, uBlock, but still).
A clean reinstall may be in order, but it'll cost so much time getting all config I now have in place again.