Is there any good real-time AV for desktop linux available?
inotifywait -mre modify /home/$USER |
while read DIR EVT FILE; do
do
clamscan $FILE --move=/tmp/noexec_prison/$USER/
doneThe scanner for detecting windows-virus while using Linux were said to be ok (ClamAV, I think).
Something more like an IDS that detects known-insecure software and configurations is probably more useful than a pattern-matching evil bytes detector though.
There's no reason for antivirus software of this kind of exist on desktop Linux, because the whole operating system is free software, so if we want to fix some vulnerability that malware exploits, we can just do it (for example, by sandboxing applications), rather than implementing kludgy workarounds that turn users' machines into battlegrounds.
From what I hear, Wayland should help a lot with this, since it's much simpler and provides better isolation than X11.