I have always heard not to use antivirus on Linux but I saw the post about a guy getting a RAT exploit backdoored through wine and it had me thinking should I be using ClamAV or some other antivirus for Linux?

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    16 hours ago

    This is half true, malware may target and look for weaknesses in it but the vendor responds faster too. But it is rare for a lot of time to be spent by “common” malware authors, since most countermeasures are defeated quickly.