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For those interested in scanning files for malware and other threat detection under Linux and using the GNOME desktop, Lenspect is a new GNOME-aligned application that is a GUI powered by VirusTotal for being a Linux-native security threat scanner.
As noted by This Week in GNOME, Lenspect has launched as a security threat scanner built atop Google-owned VirusTotal. In turn users of this GNOME-focused desktop application need to have their own VirusTotal API key.
Lenspect is written in Python and makes use of the GTK toolkit. Lenspect 1.0 was released last week as the project's inaugural release. Lenspect is licensed under the GPLv3.
Lenspect is available via Flathub or its sources can be grabbed from GitHub.
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You will live to see your grandchildren.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by jb on Tuesday October 21, @06:30AM (2 children)
The mind boggles. Who on earth would trust a company whose entire business model is built on spying on their own users for anything to do with security?
(Score: 4, Interesting) by hopdevil on Tuesday October 21, @07:44AM
Insurance companies, accountants, government regulators
(Score: 5, Insightful) by RedGreen on Tuesday October 21, @02:11PM
"The mind boggles. Who on earth would trust a company whose entire business model is built on spying on their own users for anything to do with security?"
Because they are GNOME the people who have yet to meet a technology provided by a parasite corporation they did not love to incorporate into their project. They have been working for decades to undermine the *nix philosophy and turn it into a garbage clone of the worst ideas the corporations have.
"Cervantes definitely was prescient in describing a senile Don fighting against windmills." -- larryjoe on /.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 21, @12:15PM
Gnome: nope
VirusTotal: On my 'Desktop'?, with access to all my files and submitting them to a remote server to be 'scanned for viruses'? - Aye, Right...Gettifuyabassa.
Locally, we have a politically incorrect saying about such naivety which comes to mind, featuring the upper River Clyde as a destination, banana boats¹ as the means of transportation to said destination, and that how the utterer is not the sort of person who arrived here via such a journey.
'..In turn users of this GNOME-focused desktop application need to have their own VirusTotal API key.'
Trusting Google with a database of files from everyones machines that have been remotely scanned by VirusTotal, all neatly indexed by api key...just think, all TPTB have to do to find all the cheeky wee monkeys out there who are guilty of 'wrongthink du jour' is to submit a list of filenames/hashes to Google to check against their 'scanned' lists.
What's the difference between a 'virus signature' and 'key words/phrases of interest'?, consider that the potential 'interested parties' here could be governnent spooks, law enforcement, the copyright mafia, oh, and advertising slingers, and they could now surreptitiously scan the content of all your files for anything they want, but they wouldn't do that, surely not, as, to paraphrase auld Wullie Shakespeare
'For Google is an honourable corporate entity'
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¹ Ships operated by companies like Geest to transport the bananas, they were once a regular sight on the river.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by epitaxial on Tuesday October 21, @12:18PM (2 children)
How about you concentrate on being a window manager or desktop environment first? Did the team run out of bug fixes?
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 21, @12:36PM (1 child)
(Score: 3, Funny) by epitaxial on Tuesday October 21, @12:46PM
That ship sailed when linux had to resort to containers to distribute software.
(Score: 4, Informative) by Rich on Tuesday October 21, @03:13PM
... this hasn't got anything to do with GNOME (except it was listed unter "third party" in their blog), and the guy who made it also has repos for KDE stuff on his github.
But I wouldn't put it past the GNOME mob to include such junk. It would be a significant achievement in their ongoing quest to hit new lows since version 3.