# Panic! At The Distro: A Study of Malware Prevention in Linux Distributions

DevFeed: [Panic! At The Distro: A Study of Malware Prevention in Linux Distributions](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/panic-at-the-distro-a-study-of-malware-prevention-in-linux-distributions-13202.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.chainguard.dev/unchained/panic-at-the-distro-a-study-of-malware-prevention-in-linux-distributions>)

Published: 2024-12-17T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Chainguard: Unchained](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/chainguard-unchained.md>)

Topics: [Linux](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/linux.md>), [Malware](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/malware.md>), [Maintainers](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/maintainers.md>), [open-source-security](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/open-source-security.md>), [Benchmark](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/benchmark.md>), [dataset](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/dataset.md>)

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## AI overview

Chainguard studies malware prevention in Linux distributions through maintainer interviews and a Linux package malware benchmark dataset. The study reports that most interviewed distributions do not proactively scan repositories, while existing open-source malware scanners often produce false positives.

## Source excerpt

Chainguard wanted to know more about malware prevention in Linux distributions. So we did a study to see what maintainers are doing about it. See the results.