Security News > 2024 > June > Kaspersky releases free tool that scans Linux for known threats
Kaspersky has released a new virus removal tool named KVRT for the Linux platform, allowing users to scan their systems and remove malware and other known threats for free.
Kaspersky's new tool isn't a real-time threat protection tool but a standalone scanner that can detect malware, adware, legitimate programs abused for malicious purposes, and other known threats and offers to clean them.
"Our application can scan system memory, startup objects, boot sectors, and all files in the operating system for known malware. It scans files of all formats - including archived ones," says Kaspersky.
Kaspersky has tested the tool on popular Linux distributions and confirmed it works on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, Linux Mint, Ubuntu, SUSE, openSUSE, and Debian, among others.
If regular users execute the scanner, it won't have the required permissions to scan all directories and partitions where threats could be hiding.
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