[GReaper]

You don't really need an anti-virus package for a Linux distribution, the problems they get are a little bit different. You don't really go downloading for random .exe files to use in Linux so you're unlikely to get infected.

The basics for security would be:

- Stay updated, your distribution should have some update tool which can fix any packages with security problems.
- Avoid packages from unknown sources. Chances are your chosen distribution has thousands of applications to choose from anyway.
- Don't run anything as root unless you need to. If you don't run as an admin user (root) then any malicious application can't write to important parts of the filesystem, unlike most versions of Windows which seem happy with admin by default users.
- Make sure you've got a firewall enabled, unless you're running a server then you really don't need open ports.