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I'm about to install bazzite on my wife's older (2017) Windows 10 machine, and I've been going over how to recreate everything she currently has. Most programs (even proprietary ones) are not an issue, but I'm not finding much in the antivirus department.

I never even thought to install one on my Linux machine (also on bazzite, but I have used other distros in the past). So although I am no stranger to Linux, this issue blindsided me.

I know clamav exists, and I'm educating myself on how to use it, but a GUI would be nice for the wife. She's not afraid of the terminal, but she likes the convenience of GUI programs.

Any suggestions? What do you use? Or is it just generally accepted that one should be careful and keep things up-to-date and that's enough?

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[โ€“] aarch0x40@piefed.social 59 points 2 days ago (1 children)

ClamAV is probably the way to go. While there are UIs available in various states of maintenance, it's not really necessary. The way ClamAV works is that runs a scan on daemon (re)start then continually monitors the system from there. One of it's best features is that you don't really need to worry about it.

[โ€“] UNY0N@lemmy.wtf 3 points 2 days ago

Thanks! I wasn't aware that it was such a fire-and - forget software.