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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: 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 /.