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?

  • Synthead@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    The anti virus industry boomed because of operating systems that were exceptionally vulnerable to attacks. Simply visiting a website could install software. The root cause of this problem isn’t that a user didn’t run third-party software. It’s that the operating system was vulnerable.

    After many years of neglect by operating system vendors, there really wasn’t much of a choice in how to be responsible if you insisted on running a vulnerable operating system. Therefore, the industry boomed and it became status quo for users of these operating systems.

    Or you could run an OS that regularly fixes vulnerabilities.

    • joel_feila@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      plus if your someone that makes malware are you really going to waste time making a linux version of your malware or just stick to the windows version.

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        1 year ago

        This also assumes that Linux is vulnerable the same way that Windows is for the software, which is probably isn’t.