Now I need to know who the hell has installed Free Download Manager on Linux.
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And via a website too. That's like pushing a car. One of the main strengths of Linux are open repositories, maintained by reputable sources and checked by thousands of reputable people. Packages are checksummed and therefore unable to be switched by malicious parties. Even the AUR is arguably a safer and more regulated source. And it's actually in there.
And via a website too
Everyone knows real admins do curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/something/or/other/install.sh | sudo bash
The same people that would have given that poor nigerian prince their bank account details
malicious Debian package repository
*laughs in RPM*
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Right, but you could do the same with RPM. Not everyone is aware of this, but installing a package executes scripts with root access over your system.
Thanks Captain Obvious.
Finally linux is getting popular enough to make viruses. Yay?. Insert gru meme here
Linux has had viruses for decades
Here is a list of some of the more prominent ones:
(I'm sorry. I'm also reading the same discussion over at the other post with Linux at the workplace.)
Is anything on that list relevant in the wild? That is, are those viruses 'in theory', or have they inflicted some damage and actually spread back then? I'm looking for some news articles or actual numbers.
"Non-free download manager"
You allways pay with something