Is antivirus something you even need as a desktop Linux user?
>>109030000You don't even need them on windows, harden and use commonsense 2026. At worst upload the shit on virustotal.
>>109030000Modern cybersecurity practices make the average desktop user too small of a fish to warrant targeting. It's far more lucrative to either do a social engineering scam or to just buy a list of passwords from a data leak and drain as many bank accounts as you can.To the extent that traditional computer viruses still exist, they are created by professional criminal organizations to target businesses they can extort for millions.It's really not a concern in 2026.
>>109030000In a post-Mythos age, it might become necessary.
>>109030000it's valuable as a stop gap measure right before execution of malware, but once malware is executed you should assume the machine is permanently compromised (even if you reinstall, since sophisticated malware installs itself into firmware). No antivirus can protect you after the fact, only before.
>>109030028How does common sense prevent LSASS buffer overflow attack?
>>109030000They cause problems and pretend to fix them. McAfee famously was a backdoor itself
>>109030206Calm down Dario
>>109030000I have it on my seed box to scan every file downloaded. The couple windows boxes I have left have whatever comes with the OS. The linux based boxes don't have anything since common sense 2026 is more than enough.
>>109030262By anticipating the situations where such attack could happen hardening the system accordingly, you can't ever get 100% protection but that's enough to mitigate risks on desktops, antiviruses are at best overkill and at worst snake oil in this context.
