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by itvision·5y ago·view on hn ↗
Free or not-free - there are none at the moment.

ClamAV last time I checked missed over 30% of in the wild malware which renders it pretty much useless. AV-Comparatives and VBulletin have long stopped testing it for this reason.

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Well there are some non-free ones. I know Cylance supports some linux distros, and so does McAfee. Maybe others too.

The thing is I don't really want to use those. I use both in work, McAfee is ancient crufty old crap. Cylance is OK but since the takeover from Blackberry their product has gone downhill rapidly. Also, their Linux version is not available to consumers.

Also, if I use one it'd have to be open source. And ideally free in money too, though I could compromise on that if it's not too expensive.

Seems like when I look at the "top 10 anti-virus" type articles that a surprising number of them fail to find relatively common viruses.