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posted by chromas on Monday June 29 2020, @03:09PM   Printer-friendly
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Microsoft releases Defender ATP for Linux:

On June 23, Microsoft released Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) for Linux for general use.

But before you get excited while you could use this on a Linux desktop, this version of ATP is not meant for the desktop. It's to protect Linux servers from server and network threats. If you want protection for your standalone desktop, you're better off with a such as ClamAV or Sophos Antivirus for Linux.

For sysadmins and security pros, Microsoft Defender Security Center is now available for monitoring and managing security across the full spectrum of enterprise desktop and server platforms -- Android, Windows, Windows Server, macOS, and Linux.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 30 2020, @07:20AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 30 2020, @07:20AM (#1014425)

    I'd make a slight correction to their blurb..

    'It's to protect Linux servers administered by Windows wonks from server and network threats.'

    I've noticed a number of jobs recently where they've been looking for Windows Devops/Agile/Name-Your-Own-Trendy-Buzzword-Fuckshitwankery people to do whatever it is they normally do and look after Linux servers, y'know, as some sort of afterthought.

    This is in fucked up Britain, as recently as last week I got an email from an agency for such a post...despite said agency having been told I only do Linux/*BSD/Solaris, not Windows, besides, I've moved on from IT, not feckin interested anymore, not even consultancy (though the pay was nice...I now lack the patience to deal with the braindeath that came with earning it) so please remove my details from your feckin database...like I asked the last feckin time...

    I've not bothered looking elsewhere, but assume it's a global problem caused by the Microsoft infestation.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 30 2020, @07:36AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 30 2020, @07:36AM (#1014428)

    My linux server is dedicated to finding, and serving, the very latest in Microsoft vulnerabilities! I put them in all the email that passes through my server. I attach them to all http requests. I hope that Microsoft will die, soon, from all the malware and its own telemetry, since everyone's passwords are not the property of Redmond. And I serve malware, viruses, poop, and Facebook requests, to whoever contacts my servers, and I do not feel the least bad about it. After what they did to me, with the Blue Screams of Death, that killed my family, in their "self-driving" Microsoft car, that went off the cliff, displaying "Retry, Abort, Fail, Die?"

    "I don't expect you to talk, Mr. Gates, I expect you to die!" Dude had his reasons.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 30 2020, @05:15PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 30 2020, @05:15PM (#1014580)

    Yeah, it's because they are dumb whores who work with other dumb whores and can't even conceive why someone who "knew linux" wouldn't be interested in working with both Windows and Linux.