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#8 reawakened my nervousness about the lack of virus protection on Linux. With every milestone we celebrate it becomes more likely that malicious people target desktop Linux with their malware, and I don't think the "Linux is inherently secure" mentality helps. I hope clamav's on access scanner is fixed and improved so it becomes commonplace before there's some big newsworthy scandal.
Why are we shouting?
Anyway, don't waste your time with "antivirus" software. That is not how you secure a system.
Yes, but projects like Wayland which are trying to do this get shouted down.
I was almost sure Wayland had succeeded... Well except for people still stuck on Xorg because of accessibility features...