Kaspersky releases a malware scanner for Linux systems (opens in new tab)

But can I interest you in an OS that will send your data to NSA instead?

Why the downvote?

Malware, at least that has a track record of not fucking with my day, which cannot be said about AV programs like Kaspersky.

I would rather chose malware, because Kaspersky is malware and more for the worse.

Source for the second statement?

Downloading binaries from should-not-be-trusted sources, and executing/installing them is one way. There is some irony on having to do exactly that with this scanner. But, anyway, you may not have everything you want in your distribution, so you may have to resort to that in some cases.

There are more subtler ways to download binaries and scripts from elsewhere, depending on what you use, like Steam games, python/js/perl/etc repositories , browser extensions, adding new distribution repositories, and so on. Everything should be safe enough and should be checked, but as the xz problem showed, that is not a fail-proof guarantee.

If you have a public HTTP server somewhere, you can check its access logs. You'll find a lot requests which try to exploit remote code execution vulnerabilities of some CMS or router firmware.

TFA lists many examples.

Manually downloaded scripts from websites, which are then run as root. The website will tell you that thats how it works, and to "trust me bro".

The target audience is the same "computer expert" who runs anything he downloads onto his Windows 7 PC as admin, because that solves a lot of issues usually™.

Is the executable updated before each run, and not merely the data (definitions/patterns) used? Because running as root, being closed source, and updating the virus definitions daily wouldn't be surprising.