Linux and the malwares
There are no viruses on Linux !
– A fool
You may have seen this endless urban legend in news comments regarding some vulnerabilities or malwares targeting Microsoft Windows. “Linux cannot be harmed by malwares”, “there are not viruses on Linux”, “you don’t need an antivirus on Linux”, blah blah blah. This magical spell was also spread on MacOS world because of its BSD derivative Unix foundations.
All of this is false, Unix systems and Unix-like, just like Microsoft Windows, are targeted by malwares attacks.
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