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Kaspersky releases a malware scanner for Linux systems
Kaspersky Virus Removal Tool (KVRT), a free application for scanning Linux systems for known malware.
Recently, we published a series of posts about malicious code in the open source set of utilities XZ Utils, which managed to find its way into several popular Linux builds; wrote about a Linux implant for the DinodasRAT malware — also known as XDealer; and warned about a backdoor in the Trojanized version of Free Download Manager. Despite all this, the myth that Linux is mostly immune to cyberthreats persists: companies rarely devote funds to protecting machines running this operating system. To ensure that the application has access rights to system memory, boot sectors and other important areas, and can also cure or remove detected threats, it’s recommended to run it under a superuser account (root).
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