Anyone who is asking for citations is failing to use their own brain and this cannot be helped. (I'm out of this thread, nothing more left to say. Who hasn't grasped it yet never will.)

It is very likely that you misunderstood me. But you used very rude wording which prevents further digging into a very technical subject.

mark0x01 wrote:

What do other Devuan users use for virus and malware detection?

maldet (Linux Malware Detect) and this will use also clamav together.

https://www.rfxn.com/projects/linux-malware-detect/

Thanks Tom, this helps with options.

So Wine can get infected, and CryptoLocker's are still a threat.

I deal a lot with vintage computers, so often have to use dubious sources when looking for drivers and old software, so virus scanning of all these is a must.
An infected executable is always a potential threat,..

https://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-d … 53719.html

Viruses on wine have happened.

Windows viruses do not run in Wine.

...and if you run some app in wine? If the virus can be executed in wine it will be executed. Wine is compatibility layer that let them to be executed! Not all viruses, but some of them.

To my mind, the best way to deal with M$ is to separate windows from linux. Use virtualisation. There is no problem to add a shared folder to the guest in order to use antivirus on windows if it's necessary.

Segfault wrote:

Windows viruses do not run in Wine

And you was looking over my shoulder.
And the earth is flat.

Citation needed.

Windows viruses do not run in Wine

And you was looking over my shoulder.

And the earth is flat.

And if you run wine?

I have now scanned my home dir and uncovered a few infected applications hiding in wine.

Definitely worth using on Linux, as it is not as safe as it once was.

It is not the linux which is less safe, it is the w(h)ine install in your $HOME, which is unsafe.

Stop the wine application which offers all the uncertainties of windows.
Stick in an infected usb stick and wine will begin to work and distribute the virus inside your wine-home. I have seen this live on my Laptop.
I used to

apt remove wine*

and then have the directories scanned for viruses.
I Used antivir for that, still existing but it is no more in the distros I know
Have ever since 10 years not used any virus checking or w(h)ine anymore.

What do other Devuan users use for virus and malware detection?

Do not get it. The very first thing to do after installation is to configure firewall.

You can use portable antivirus on windows virtual machine to analyse the shit received from others if you have this kind of issue.

If I were to run an AV on Linux, I'd just go back to Windows. It would defeat the whole purpose (one of them, at least).

The obvious use is to scan files etc that have to be processed on a Windows system. It's a lot harder for a virus to infect the system doing the scanning if that's a different OS. And possibly a different CPU, eg a Raspberry PI.

I have now scanned my home dir and uncovered a few infected applications hiding in wine.

Definitely worth using on Linux, as it is not as safe as it once was.

What do other Devuan users use for virus and malware detection?

maldet (Linux Malware Detect) and this will use also clamav together.

https://www.rfxn.com/projects/linux-malware-detect/