you are mostly right. anti cheat is somewhat more effective with kernel level access. also, it is infinitely more dangerous and creepy to run on your machine.

however, if the devs can get rid of just a couple more cheaters - they will absolutely insist on the more intrusive versions. it is not their machine after all.

i see two variants on how to solve this issue:

• let your wallet speak. this failed long ago IMO
• remind the devs, that a client is never to be trusted. if i had the time, i would probably make a sport out of breaking kernel level anti cheat and distribute it for free 😈

clamAV has heuristic capabilities. just search through the documentation and see how many switches contain ‘heuristic’:

https://docs.clamav.net/manual/Development/libclamav.html

I like to consider myself part of the exclusive and oh so elite club of linux users. everyone here saying that AV is not needed, because the best security is not to be stupid, is right. but is your grandma tech literate enough to not do stupid things on her computer? your teenage son?

as the linux user base grows, the platform becomes more interesting of a target. even for stupid attacks. and lets be honnest: lots of legitimate open source projects still use an install script to curl and pipe into the terminal as a suggested method to install. which is just horrible!

while an anti malware is a patch. it is the last line of defense after a stupid mistake. so it would be great to have an actual desktop AV for linux. eset used to sell one but it is long out of service.

i use clamAV. but i maintain it for the family, so it is not as simple as telling them exactly what to install and run with default configs.

anyway, for those interested: here are two videos of malware attacks against lunux in rather different fashions:

• https://odysee.com/@AlphaNerd:8/desktop-linux-is-under-attack:a
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNWPODkEHSA

may i interest you in SimAnt?

i think they got the tomeline wrong… as far as i remember nazi germany offered simmilar deals to jews before forcefully deporting them.

lets not talk about what happened after deportation. if the us gov is so bad with history, it might give them ideas…