Microsoft Defender for Linux !
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bens_dadMicrosoft Defender is available (free) for Ubuntu !
# apt show mdatp
Package: mdatp
Version: 101.25042.0003
Priority: optional
Section: devel
Maintainer: Microsoft Defender Group <mdatplinuxpackages@microsoft.com>
Installed-Size: 530 MB
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.23)
Download-Size: 157 MB
APT-Sources: https://packages.microsoft.com/ubuntu/25.04/prod plucky/main amd64 Packages
Description: Microsoft Defender (Production)
Microsoft Defender is a complete endpoint
security solution. It delivers preventative protection, post-breach
detection, automated investigation, and response.
It takes about half a gig of disk (roughly the same as ClamAV IIRC):
Download size: 157 MB
Space needed: 530 MB
# apt show mdatp
Package: mdatp
Version: 101.25042.0003
Priority: optional
Section: devel
Maintainer: Microsoft Defender Group <mdatplinuxpackages@microsoft.com>
Installed-Size: 530 MB
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.23)
Download-Size: 157 MB
APT-Sources: https://packages.microsoft.com/ubuntu/25.04/prod plucky/main amd64 Packages
Description: Microsoft Defender (Production)
Microsoft Defender is a complete endpoint
security solution. It delivers preventative protection, post-breach
detection, automated investigation, and response.
It takes about half a gig of disk (roughly the same as ClamAV IIRC):
Download size: 157 MB
Space needed: 530 MB
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Date: 2025-07-15 10:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-07-16 07:02 am (UTC)Microsoft obviously hope so (unless they are only doing it to appease some influential customer).
I find that ClamAV has a fairly poor record of finding malware (but I suspect that I get very little which makes the stats unreliable).