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Microsoft is planning to bring its Defender antivirus to Linux systems next year and will be giving a demo of how security specialists can use Microsoft Defender at the Ignite Conference this week.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft ... x-in-2020/

my respect goes to that company, i'm in no position to judge here,i got into computers via windows, but, it's kinda funny to me considering the security of ms windows today.
since when ms is concerned about linux security while the one who is bombarded with malware and ransomware nowadays is that company's os itself!
it is just my personal opinion.

Subtitle of the article:

Microsoft details its efforts to level the playing field against cyber attackers.

Does this mean Microsoft is planning to weaken the defence against cyberattacks on Linux? Maybe it's a plan to automatically run code and macros in email attachments on Linux. That would go a long way to levelling the playing field.

After all the Halloween documents and the SCO-wars, it is very unlikely I will ever trust Microsoft's intentions regarding Linux.

BitJam wrote: Mon Nov 11, 2019 4:01 am it is very unlikely I will ever trust Microsoft's intentions regarding Linux.

well said ,
and i'm wondering why ms is trying so hard to poke into other area's like linux, android, etc...
since im not a security expert to comment on the security aspects of it, it seems to me that ms is getting more greedy everyday.

I consider MS products to be viral. I can't imagine that there will be many Linux old hands that go near this MS product. Probably only those coming from the Windows world of virus/malware that would install & use it, for their security... lol

I was at a conference back in the 1980s and the keynote speaker was from one of the 2 or 3 antivirus companies at the time. i forget which one but seem to recall the speaker had a british accent, but my memory may be faulty.

In his presentation he outright admitted that the only people who had a financial interest in writing viruses was the antivirus industry!

Since that day I have had a very cynical view of viruses and antivirus companies, especially when they went off heuristic detection and went to detecting signatures, thereby making the detection of a virus only as good as they allegedly found one in the wild and updated the database file.

So if MS get involved in Linux antivirus I would expect to suddenly find a proliferation of Linux viruses. LOL

It isn't considered to be really good in Windows, not terrible, but you wouldn't want to pay for it. Can't see it catching on in the Linux world, we generally have higher standards than that.

I'd guess this thread will be full of conspiracy theories... I won't add to them I'll wait to see what happens, assuming anything does actually happen.

No that interested in Defender or Edge, I am looking forward for them to provide a MS Office for Linux...

Yeah, why would I want to use a Microsoft anti-virus program when Linux has its own. One need not even concern themselves with it being a Microsoft product--irrelevant.