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What are the ways in which viruses and other types of malware can infect a Linux system?
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But can I interest you in an OS that will send your data to NSA instead?
With Kaspersky you have the guarantee it won’t be sent to NSA since it is Russian.
It's good to have more antivirus options on Linux, but why should we trust Kaspersky? They've been implicated in hacking for the Russian government
Source for the second statement?
What are the ways in which viruses and other types of malware can infect a Linux system?
Downloading binaries from should-not-be-trusted sources, and executing/installing them is one way. There is some irony on having to do exactly that with this scanner. But, anyway, you may not have everything you want in your distribution, so you may have to resort to that in some cases. There are more subtler ways to download binaries and scripts from elsewhere, depending on what you use, like Steam games, python/js/…
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But can I interest you in an OS that will send your data to NSA instead?
Since we are talking about Linux. I assume you have a link to the source code where this is happening.
Having the source is a good start, but having a "lawful" powerful active player that actively want to intrude should be part of the equation. It was a formidable threat a decade ago, nothing was done about that, and now is even more advanced than what was then.
I always thought Kaspersky is one of the better AntiVirus programs. But as an end user on Linux, do you really need one? If I miss a Russian program, then it is the ABBYY FineReader Engine CLI for Linux Unfortunately, it was always very expensive.
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Since we are talking about Linux. I assume you have a link to the source code where this is happening.
Not everything in Linux have a source code available for users. And you may want to use i.e. Chrome, or some games, or some drivers by i.e. NVidia. And that without counting BIOS or whatever deep down computers use, most of what you could use as social network/mail solution, and not found yet trojans like what happened with xz in some basic tool. Having the source is a good start, but having a "lawful" powerful activ…
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not everything in Linux have a source code available for users. And you may want to use i.e. Chrome, or some games, or some drivers by i.e. NVidia. And that without counting BIOS or whatever deep down computers use, most of what you could use as social network/mail solution, and not found yet trojans like what happened with xz in some basic tool. Having the source is a good start, but having a "lawful" powerful activ…
Are we still talking about the OS?