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Alternative to ClamAV? (self.selfhosted)

submitted 1 year ago by lal309 to c/selfhosted

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TL;DR - What are you running as a means of “antivirus” on Linux servers?

I have a few small Debian 12 servers running my services and would like to enhance my security posture. Some services are exposed to the internet and I’ve done quite a few things to protect the services and the hosts. When it comes to “antivirus”, I was looking at ClamAV as it seemed to be the most recommended. However, when I read the documentation, it stated that the recommended RAM was at least 2-4 gigs. Some of my servers have more power than other but some do not meet this requirement. The lower powered hosts are rpi3s and some Lenovo tinys.

When I searched for alternatives, I came across rkhunter and chrootkit, but they seem to no longer be maintained as their latest release was several years ago.

If possible, I’d like to run the same software across all my servers for simplicity and uniformity.

If you have a similar setup, what are you running? Any other recommendations?

P.S. if you are of the mindset that Linux doesn’t need this kind of protection then fine, that’s your belief, not mine. So please just skip this post.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

One of the first things my base ansible role does is disable password logins. All keys, all the time.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Never tried Ansible, I just use git and shell scripts, any advice to get started?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Depends on how you like to learn. I'm a doer so I just got stuck in building and bodging things together.

Plenty of videos about, Jeff Geerling (youtuber who does lots of Raspberry Pi stuff) has a bunch of videos and a book.

Well worth it though. I couple it with terraform to handle the infra stuff and I can have a basic VPS spun up with a locked down firewall and SSH with a single command and about 5 minutes.