{"id":1182,"date":"2010-04-26T19:45:31","date_gmt":"2010-04-26T14:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qadit.com\/blog\/?p=1182"},"modified":"2010-05-04T19:48:45","modified_gmt":"2010-05-04T14:18:45","slug":"is-anti-virus-software-needed-for-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/is-anti-virus-software-needed-for-linux\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Anti-virus software needed for Linux?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Linux is considered a very safe OS. This is mainly because there are more Windows machines than Linux boxes. For hackers it makes more sense to attack a wider population to get better results. As a result Linux has been spared of widespread virus attacks. This does not mean Linux has bullet-proof safety against viruses. The following table lists some linux viruses which necessiates administrators to consider anti-virus measures to be implemented.<!--more--><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1183\" src=\"https:\/\/www.qadit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/linux-virus.JPG\" alt=\"linux virus\" width=\"806\" height=\"524\" srcset=\"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/linux-virus.JPG 806w, https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/linux-virus-300x195.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Linux is considered a very safe OS. This is mainly because there are more Windows machines than Linux boxes. For hackers it makes more sense to attack a wider population to get better results. As a result Linux has been spared of widespread virus attacks. This does not mean Linux has bullet-proof safety against viruses. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/is-anti-virus-software-needed-for-linux\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Is Anti-virus software needed for Linux?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,6],"tags":[88,147],"class_list":["post-1182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-itsec","category-os-security","tag-anti-virus","tag-linux"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9AH7Q-j4","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}