[GTALUG] Microsoft Brings Defender Antivirus for Linux, Coming Soon for Android and iOS

[Giles Orr]

On Tue, 25 Feb 2020 at 06:58, James Knott via talk <talk at gtalug.org> wrote:
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> I came across this today in another list.
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> https://thehackernews.com/2020/02/windows-defender-atp-linux-android.html
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> This certainly isn't your father's Microsoft!

Good idea in principle, but tell me about the practise.  I don't care
how many threat signatures its been trained on: if they're all Windows
binaries, how effective will it be on a Linux machine?  Another
important question is: what information will this be sending home?
Microsoft's SOP (Standard Operating Procedure) these days is to
incorporate more and more reporting into everything they make.
Avoiding this behaviour is one of the reasons I moved to Linux - one
of my biggest reasons.  It's nice of Hacker News to right a puff piece
for Microsoft: it would have been better if they'd actually run the
software and looked at its behaviour ...

I'm not totally anti-Microsoft, but I still think "guilty until proven
innocent" is the correct attitude given their track record.

-- 
Giles
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