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Microsoft Defender ATP preview arrives for Linux distros -- iOS and Android versions to follow:
Microsoft has released a public preview of its Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) for various Linux distributions.
The company says that the tool will also be coming to iOS and Android later this year, and more details of these mobile editions are due to be revealed at next week's RSA Conference. The spread to additional platform comes after Microsoft rebranded Windows Defender as Microsoft Defender last year.
[...]On the Linux server front, RHEL 7+, CentOS Linux 7+, Ubuntu 16 LTS, or higher LTS, SLES 12+, Debian 9+ and Oracle EL 7 are supported by the preview, reported Bleeping Computer.
In a blog post about the release, Microsoft writes: "We're announcing another step in our journey to offer security from Microsoft with the public preview of Microsoft Defender ATP for Linux. Extending endpoint threat protection to Linux has been a long-time ask from our customers and we're excited to be able to deliver on that".
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Saturday February 22 2020, @09:06AM (13 children)
Now Linux users can have useless daemons running in the background, to slow the system to a crawl!!
I should probably be fair though. Windows Defender uses a lot less resources than the various third party antivirus programs. At least when I played with it, it seemed very lightweight, in comparison to any of the competition.
Still, this is Linux. Aside from malignant processes such as systemd, we don't really need full-time realtime protection.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by janrinok on Saturday February 22 2020, @09:13AM (4 children)
It rather depends on what you use your computer for. If you run a server of some kind, it is always useful to check that you are not pushing out viruses that, although they cannot affect your own computer, might have serious consequences for the recipient.
I'm still not tempted to go to MS for my antivirus needs though. I will never trust them with my data.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 22 2020, @02:32PM (2 children)
There are plenty of IDS systems for nix, don't need MS anywhere near my box.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by edIII on Saturday February 22 2020, @09:53PM (1 child)
Here's a short list [comparitech.com] of IDS for Linux, updated for today's environments.
Antivirus for Linux exists too [tecmint.com]. Microsoft is just adding to the alternatives, which does improve things somewhat, even if you don't choose it.
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 23 2020, @04:16PM
An offer of security from Microsoft? No thanks.
(Score: 4, Funny) by Bot on Saturday February 22 2020, @03:15PM
>It rather depends on what you use your computer for.
I use it to avoid running Windows. Basically I boot it, and when a desktop without M$ logo comes up, I exhale and leave it as is.
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by c0lo on Saturday February 22 2020, @10:01AM (1 child)
Fortunately, there's a solution for that: poetterization!
Won't ever slow the system to a crawl, promise.
You see, an unusable system can't be slow, just unusable.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 12 2020, @04:22AM
if you can't logon then the system will run faster
if programs won't run it'll be even faster still
just imagine what happens when the network is disconnected
SPEED!!!!
(Score: 2) by knarf on Saturday February 22 2020, @10:27AM
> Aside from malignant processes such as systemd, we don't really need full-time realtime protection.
Wait a few years and you'll be ranting about systemd-atp eating your resources. Resistance is, after all, futile.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 22 2020, @10:33AM (1 child)
Copyright infringing music/movie files, or illegal pornography.
Remember what the Windows 8/8.1/10 EULA reads like. Now imagine if they can find a way to get root level access to your Linux boxes and rummage through all your data 'legitimately' thanks to their anti-virus software. That is the true reason they are doing this, probably with funding from some TLAs.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 23 2020, @12:04AM
This is the ethical equivalent of injecting a healthy young child with cancer and ebola. MS be gone! Cast this evil out!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 22 2020, @12:44PM (2 children)
>> Now Linux users can have useless daemons running in the background, to slow the system to a crawl!!
Haven't you heard of systemd yet?
(Score: 2) by Bot on Saturday February 22 2020, @01:47PM
Maybe he classifies it as harmful rather than useless. It depends on the perspective. It is useless from a technical POV, it is harmful from a business perspective.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 12 2020, @04:25AM
the way people talk about systemd I keep thinking it is a virus specifically designed for linux