Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
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Don't think Clamav does scanning of everything you launch, it works on files you request to scan usually for mail or file servers. The result is not that great from my experience though neither are with kaspersky or eset and they actually ask money for that.
Why do you need an antivirus? Do you plan installing viruses? It's pretty uncommon request for Linux desktop as you'd have to put some effort to finding and running some Linux virus(actually, please dm if you find one).
I didn't know if we have to scan files manually in it.
I just want to make my system more protected, because it's said that linux is more prone to attacks than windows. So maybe I just need a software which can monitor if everything is going good. and I am a newbie in linux, so sorry if that question sounded vague.
Who says Linux viruses are more common than Windows viruses? That just sounds patently false. Why would someone have more incentive to do that? The point of a virus is to infect a computer. Why would someone spend hours developing a virus for a desktop operating system that only comprises a mere 1.2% of the market share?
I get it now, looked it up. Was just being paranoid maybe.
Not saying an antivirus would be a bad thing. It all depends on your threat model. I was merely responding to that one point you made. :)
I understand your point
Running an antivirus on Linux only addresses a psychosomatic issue, it is of no benefit and produces zero positive results.