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GNOME Has a New Security Threat Scanner Powered by VirusTotal

posted by hubie on Tuesday October 21, @04:27AM   Printer-friendly

An Anonymous Coward writes:

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 epitaxial on Tuesday October 21, @12:18PM (2 children)

    by epitaxial (3165) on Tuesday October 21, @12:18PM (#1421591)

    How about you concentrate on being a window manager or desktop environment first? Did the team run out of bug fixes?

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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 21, @12:36PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 21, @12:36PM (#1421592)
    It's because Windows 11 is so bad that they need to do shit like this to make Desktop Linux even worse.

    • (Score: 3, Funny) by epitaxial on Tuesday October 21, @12:46PM

      by epitaxial (3165) on Tuesday October 21, @12:46PM (#1421593)

      That ship sailed when linux had to resort to containers to distribute software.