Question Good Free Antivirus of Ubuntu Linux

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So if i am browsing online banking, what is the best practices for Web security for Linux if there is not antivrus installad which has payment protection ??
Best practice is to close and open browser and then open bank or webshop. You know for certain nothing in other tabs could interfere. That said, the vertcal (between tabs) seperation is weaker, it is NOT absent or completely gone.


I think Malwarebytes Browser Guard has skimming protection (you could add it and disable advertising protection). Thanks for raising the question, I will have a look at Malwarebytes Browser Guard myself.
 
Best practice is to close and open browser and then open bank or webshop. You know for certain nothing in other tabs could interfere. That said, the vertcal (between tabs) seperation is weaker, it is NOT absent or completely gone.


I think Malwarebytes Browser Guard has skimming protection (you could add it and disable advertising protection). Thanks for raising the question, I will have a look at Malwarebytes Browser Guard myself.
Yes, thanks for the answer, because this is the most important for me. For example, on Windows, I have Bitdefender with Safe Pay, so I'm looking for a similar solution for Linux. Although the Risk is much lower than in the case of Windows OS, it is still there. i think Bitdefender has a version for Linux and still has one seat in my subscription. I will also check it
 
or private window?

It depends on what you want to achieve.
With private windows, you don't isolate websites, but with Containers, you do.
Using private windows just to avoid saving your browsing history isn't very effective.
It's better,especially in Chromium-based browsers, where even extensions, unlike in Firefox, ask for permission to read your browsing history (you can check this),to simply disable browsing history saving via policy.;)
 
Actually I enable McAfee web adivsor in private window to check if the banking website is known as fake before logging in.

If you bookmark your online banking website, it will never be a fake.;)
However, it could be clean today and compromised tomorrow by a malicious 3p-scripts/frame.
That’s the advantage of using Dynamic Filtering.
 
If you bookmark your online banking website, it will never be a fake
I do.
However, it could be clean today and compromised tomorrow by a malicious 3p-scripts/frame.
That’s the advantage of using Dynamic Filtering
Allowing uBOL with McAfee web advisor in private window too.
Actually I have only those, no other extensions.
 
The same i am enabling Bitdefender Traffic light Extension beside Safe Pay feature
Trafficlight is doing good also; I have selected McAfee after testing with several other extensions including Trafficlight, Norton safe web, and Symantec browser protection against a freshly reported compromised bank website in Brazil.
 
Trafficlight is doing good also; I have selected McAfee after testing with several other extensions including Trafficlight, Norton safe web, and Symantec browser protection against a freshly reported compromised bank website in Brazil.
Good to know, however, McAfee Web Protection is good, but I have had a problem with it for a long time, for resource consumption, as it has a process running in the background, but this was a long time ago, and I don't know if it is still the case or not
 
Good to know, however, McAfee Web Protection is good, but I have had a problem with it for a long time, for resource consumption, as it has a process running in the background, but this was a long time ago, and I don't know if it is still the case or not
Agree; Norton safe web is even worse; Trafficlight followed by Symantec are the lightest.
 
So if i am browsing online banking, what is the best practices for Web security for Linux if there is not antivrus installad which has payment protection ??
Sorry had not seen your reply, Malware Bytes Browser Guard has some protections and not a bad privacy policy. Disable the adblocker when you use another adblocker.

Quiting the browser deleting history and stuff is good practice before doing other stuf. What I like about Brave is enabling the forget me option and close all other tabs will do also.
 
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One thing that Anthropic said is that infostealers are the cheapest form of attack for Windows based attackers - the code to steal session cookies would stay the same. They land on your system, steal the cookies, passwords etc and the job is done.

For people who migrated to Linux from Windows with hackers following them, this threat remains the same. The attackers May not have Linux tooling, but this attack can still be re-used to keep tabs on you.

Some people feel that they are now safe once they migrated to Linux, but this is a false sense of security, Hackers have a few Linux distro's to choose from, and Kali is the most famous one. And Kali has both Windows and Linux attack tools. For many hackers, Kali is their first introduction to attack tools, and is moderately easy to learn. Besides, there are tutorials on the web to follow along

Some people pooh pooh the idea that they may be targeted. And some people mistakenly think that All hackers are cybercriminals in search of money. The fact is, hackers have various motivations. And hackers are just plain nosy, and just want to see what other people are doing. So the junior pre-cybercriminal ones just hack for practice and fun. Let me tell you this: good hackers make it a point not to be discovered, erase logs and cover up. A minority of hackers like to mess with their targets, make things fail and not work and enjoy a good laugh watching you trying to fix things. But the good ones don't do that and stay hidden. The tell tale signs of being hacked is modified / disabled security settings. If you find that certain settings seems to be modified, be wary. Hackers, careful or not, tend to disable security settings for their own ease of re-entry. Best thing to do is harden your system. Take pre-cautionary measures. An ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure. Take charge of your privacy.
 
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Because @Victor M posted he used FAPOLICYD, I asked AI to assist me to implement this applicatuon control with the following changes:
1. Always allow root user
2. Check whether all my (default) repo's are included
3. Allow user to read/write executables (but block execution)
4. Add a deamon to trigger update of fapolicy after manual installs (by root)
5. Show blocks in log
6. Start with logging (simulate)
7. Show me how to check logs
8. Show me how to change from log to block

Together with Linux sandboxing and better lunux security you don't need an AV