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geekhack Community => Other Geeky Stuff => Topic started by: fohat.digs on Fri, 31 October 2025, 13:30:43

Title: Best malware and virus protection for Linux Mint
Post by: fohat.digs on Fri, 31 October 2025, 13:30:43

Title says it. Through the years there have been multiple discussions about keeping your machine safe, but it has been a while.

Personally, I use Linux Mint with Firefox, and update them regularly. I like Duck Duck Go and use AdBlock Plus but little else.

Any good suggestions or warnings?

Thanks

Title: Re: Best malware and virus protection for Linux Mint
Post by: Leslieann on Sat, 01 November 2025, 10:20:09

Linux is proactive towards security while Microsoft is reactive.
While Linux tries to fix everything based on threat, Microsoft is profit driven so bugs are triaged based on importance vs cost vs impact, so a security breach that is expensive to fix and only impacting a small number of people can exist for decades, in fact there was one that went from XP through Win 8.0 and possibly even still works. Hacks like this sell for huge amounts on the black market.

So long as you remain vigilant AND up to date (and an adblock), your system is more bulletproof than Windows will ever be, in fact most Linux anti-virus only exists to protect the Windows clients on the same network since Linux can serve as a backdoor for Windows vulnerabilities.

Title: Re: Best malware and virus protection for Linux Mint
Post by: fohat.digs on Sat, 01 November 2025, 11:01:36

Quote from: Leslieann on Sat, 01 November 2025, 10:20:09

Linux is proactive towards security

Thank you, that is reassuring.