• madame_gaymes@programming.dev
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    4 hours ago

    Tell that to the monero miner I had to nuke when I took over one of my clients’ legacy systems. Thing was a literal hydra, detonation was the only option. Was on CentOS 5, but it was written to be POSIX compliant.

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      “Linux doesn’t have viruses”

      Just because you haven’t found any doesn’t mean they don’t exist. Most people using Linux probably wouldn’t be getting viruses on Windows either.

      Once ‘free Microsoft office linux’ is a common web search result the incidence of viruses will probably go up a lot.