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Given the quantity of information like this out there, do people bother with running anti-virus on Linux servers?

It feels like something that you'd do just to err on the safe side.

One word: "compliance". A lot of security standards demand that you run an anti-virus regularly on your servers. At least the first version of PCI DSS did, and it's MasterCard and Visa precursors did.

It's checklist items like "run an anti-virus" that make "compliance" into a pudgy, flaccid, bad word.

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