AV and WSL2

shdx84 · April 2023

Hello Community & forum Moderators,

As per your thoughts, what would be the best approach in securing/hardening WSL2 instances on Win10/11 host on AV level?

Given the fact that WSL2 is completely isolated system, would it make any sense installing separate Linux AV (gravity zone, clamAV or similar) along with AV on host machine?

I know that Bitdefender on host machine can detect and protect the host if anything from WSL tries to infect it, but I want to hear your thought about additionally protecting Linux WSL instance itself.

Flexx · April 2023

https://community.bitdefender.com/en/discussion/95760/av-and-wsl2

At present, bitdefender home product does not support linux OS. If your query is related to business version of bitdefender product, then @Alex_Dr or @Andra_B can help you.

Additionally, you can contact the bitdefender business support by visiting https://www.bitdefender.com/support/contact-us.html?last_page=BusinessCategory

Regards

Alex_Dr · May 2023

Hello @shdx84,

Bitdefender can be installed on WSL 2.0 but it is not supported. We strongly recommend installing BEST on Windows host, being enough to detect files ran on WSL 2.0.

Please let me know if additional info is required.

Alex D.

shdx84 · May 2023

Hi @Alex_Dr

Nice. This answers my question for now. Thanks a bunch, we can close the thread!

Flexx · May 2023

https://community.bitdefender.com/en/discussion/comment/324963#Comment_324963

On your request I have gone forward and closed the thread.

Regards

AV and WSL2

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