Do I need antivirus program?
Do I need antivirus program?
I have default windows defender, but didnt even know its antivirus lol. Is there any antivirus installed by default on any popular linux distro? What do you use?
I feel like antivirus can just annoy me when trying to crack something, but maybe defender protects me and im not aware.
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you don't need antivirus with linux.
there are next to no linux viruses. there is a bit of malware, but mostly targeted at servers. just don't excessively download and execute random stuff. and don't type things like "rm -rf /" into your console, if people tell you to. use your package manager where you can.
(most linux antivirus is used in like email-servers to scan mail before sending them out, so the windows clients don't get infected. antivirus on linux is seldomly/never(?) used to protect the linux itself.)
Also never copy and paste a command line you see online, it can hide nasty things.
And if you don't understand it and you do find yourself needing to do some terminal stuff chatgpt can be helpful breaking down what is going on.