With the increase popularity of the linux desktop and the steamdeck, will new viruses and malwares be developed for linux systems? should we better use an antivirus?
With the increase popularity of the linux desktop and the steamdeck, will new viruses and malwares be developed for linux systems? should we better use an antivirus?
I don’t use one, it’s unnecessary. Keep your system light, use only free software and utilize some of your common sense and you’ll be all right.
This one time my brother had his pc(winblows) infested just by plugging in a flash-drive, seriously, just that!!. I hate proprietary software.
The Linux kernel just received a fix for a privilege-escalation vulnerability that, if I’m not mistaken, could in theory be exploited by plugging in and mounting a maliciously crafted flash drive.
But on Linux this is considered a vulnerability and is fixed, whereas on Windows, automatically running potentially-malicious code on a removable drive is (was?) considered a feature.