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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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(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.