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Re: Anti-malware for my personal Debian workstation?



On Sb, 11 apr 20, 23:01:28, Joe wrote:
> 
> My feeling is that running as root is considered an extreme no-no in
> Linux (probably apart from the toy distros) and it is this that makes
> Linux viruses non-viable. 

Compromising regular user accounts is bad enough already.

https://xkcd.com/1200/

Compromising the user account that is used to gain root privileges is 
almost the same as gaining root privileges (the additional step needed 
is in most cases trivial).

Kind regards,
Andrei
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