My experience with ESET was completely opposite (and again, this just my own personal experience - other experiences might be quite different?) - highly active development in this area and highly responsive on any questions related they just seem to me to be very seriously, or at the very least increasingly, vested in the Linux AV market (e.g., they recently discovered the Unix attack dubbed "Operation Windigo" and worked jointly with CERT and CERN analyzing and tracking this as an OpenSSH backdoor and credential stealer named Linux/Ebury. Not intending to knock on Bitdefender here but it was immediately, and abundantly, clear to me that Bitdefender was not investing much in their Unices products - the repos available still date back to 2010, they've made one blog post on their Unices product updates since 2011, and steady streams of end user complaints on forums (mine included!) as to the same issues/bugs found in 2010/2011 were still persisting here in 2014 - 3 years later still unfixed/unaddressed scary. Initially, i was just going to install Bitdefender's unices scanners primarily b/c I already had significant licensing of it for Windows machines - it was just a familiarity thing. I decided on ESET and admittedly a top 3 motivating factor here was simply that, at least in my opinion, Eset seems extremely dedicated and enthusiastic towards their Linux AV products and solutions and the linux av market at large. Sure thing! The non-technical story here is that I really needed to do something AV-wise b/c my linux devices have to plug into and out of clients' Windows enviros about 90% of the time (i didnt' want to be a Virus carrier/cross-pollinate into them by being wreckless not scanning my linux machines) + I just wanted to at least "feel" like I was being proactive for the inevitable linux av needs.
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