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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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Desktop Security (feddit.uk)

submitted 8 months ago by Cyber@feddit.uk to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I secure systems for my day job. That means installing AV software, ensuring Windows Firewall is ON, etc. (Plus many other things...)

I've seen discussions around disk encryption here, but I don't recall much about a malware protection. Maybe a little about personal (desktop) firewalls.

I'm aware of Clam, etc, but is anyone actually using these tools much?

Or are we just presuming we're all immune from the bad guys targeting Windows?

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[–] NekkoDroid@programming.dev 4 points 8 months ago

I don't really bother with AV on my linux system. What I do is just use trusted software from my repos and run containerized applications.

What I am currently working on is using secure boot with a Unified Kernel Image (already doing that) that boot into a read-only /usr/ partition with verity + signature (one UKI only loads a certain partition with a specific signature, or nothing at all). Any other things I need I create a systemd sysext that gets overlayed ontop of /usr/ (also read-only) or they get installed as flatpak. For development I would just be using nspawn containers and podman/OCI containers for services that are outside of the other scopes.

This is all based on https://0pointer.net/blog/fitting-everything-together.html which is a nice write down of what I am doing/following.

That already covers a lot of different attack vectors by just not having my system be modifyable outside of my control or apps just being containerized.