I have a question, do you think an antivirus like https://www.clamav.net/ is useful for #linux ?

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I’m curious too

I have it installed, don't know if it makes a difference tho šŸ˜…

I use it to scan things I download, mostly PDFs or ePub

i think i will have a similar use case

I've used it before. The problem that I had with it was too many false positives, unless you configured it to not scan for them. I can't remember what they're called but not enabling kind of defeats the purpose. Now I'm talking about hundreds of them and you have to look up each one on the internet, inspect the source code, and then come to a conclusion whether the affected program is safe. But to be fair, all antivirus programs are like that but ClamAV gives you the ability to see them, probably because Linux has source code to read.

you should chek this video about AV https://youtu.be/49eBJAKyrls