Microsoft Defender ATP for Linux

mir3x · Guru Joined: 02 Jun 2012 Posts: 455

It's here, we all have been waiting for it whole life !!!

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/threat-protection/microsoft-defender-atp/linux-install-manually

Now Microsoft will defend our gentoo

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Banana · Posted: Thu Jun 25, 2020 6:40 pm Post subject:

can somebody explain why this could be usefull?
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Ionen · Developer Joined: 06 Dec 2018 Posts: 2888

I feel my gentoo system is not secure without this, we need an ebuild soon.

Ant P. · Watchman Joined: 18 Apr 2009 Posts: 6920

The only Microsoft threat protection we need is keeping Microsoft the hell out of Linux.

Ionen · Developer Joined: 06 Dec 2018 Posts: 2888

I believe the next step is to "convince" distributions to require it by default (for their security) and not function without it like systemd.

That Microsoft can only collect data from windows users is clearly a problem, and I think that's a great solution.

Edit: Oh and reminder that Microsoft Edge is also coming to linux, remember to switch browser when it's ready. I'm sure it'll integrate well with Microsoft Defender to protect you when you download dangerous .doc files before opening them in Microsoft Office for Linux.