It'll always be a problem for cracked software. But on Linux I find a good Free and open source alternative more readily than windows. I personally keep a good windows 10 VM around with snapshots for running software of dubious origins.

[–] TheOSINTguy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Typically, malware is harder to run on linux due the system asking for a sudo password for anything that requires administrator privlages. There are also plenty of other factors that i dont feel like getting into

Not to also mention most malicous applications are designed for windows, not linux.

[–] themelm@sh.itjust.works 6 points 10 months ago

Its mainly the market share thing really. Using good default policies on windows or Linux would kill a lot of malware but typical Linux users still just copy paste shit into the command line and add random repositories etc anyways. And a program running with my privileges in my home directory would be 99% as bad as it running as root since my machines are really just me using them.

[–] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 10 months ago

your main concern would be files. If you run something as your usual suspect user, that software can do pretty much whatever it feels like with files under those permissions, unless sandboxed.

Not quite malware, but if someone wanted to troll you a goof rm -rf isn't hard.