Personally I think virus makers just go out for windows because is a much higher market share, and more every day end user. Also the way Win is designed with UAC it can become very annoying and a lot of people disable it. Secondly most linux users are super users so they know when not to click on an unknown binary or script. All and all if you're not running root which you shouldn't, you should be pretty safe in linux unless someone is actively attacking you.
Yes, but most of the end user softwares for linux are free and opensource so, there are no chances that contributers would intentionally put viruses into it. With the help of a large community there are authentic and secure softwares and installation guides available, which reduces the chance of users installing malware. Whereas in windows, users are lured into installing viruses, with title of free - cracked, hacked softwares.
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Yeah I dislike when people say linux or mac doesn't have viruses unixmen.com/meet-linux-viruses/
Personally I think virus makers just go out for windows because is a much higher market share, and more every day end user. Also the way Win is designed with UAC it can become very annoying and a lot of people disable it. Secondly most linux users are super users so they know when not to click on an unknown binary or script. All and all if you're not running root which you shouldn't, you should be pretty safe in linux unless someone is actively attacking you.
All of those are either really tame or really old and fixed years ago
It was just an example that viruses do exist.
Yes, but most of the end user softwares for linux are free and opensource so, there are no chances that contributers would intentionally put viruses into it. With the help of a large community there are authentic and secure softwares and installation guides available, which reduces the chance of users installing malware. Whereas in windows, users are lured into installing viruses, with title of free - cracked, hacked softwares.