LOL - I rely on Windows Defender (SSD/MWB if issues) so I'm very careful what I open/DL.
I only took 2 years at tech school for Info Systems Specialist so I never put forth the effort to learn/switch to Linux. I learned just enough to realize that I don't know enough to do much of anything, lol
ClamAV has a
Windows version. It, too, uses the "active core" continually updated virus/malware database system.
Sometimes on Linux I find my system takes to making a particular alias. Aliases can be a long list of commands strung together. Say for example I want to update the software repositories, and upgrade my distribution (flavor) of Debian. I don't want to type in all the various commands. I string them together like so.
$ alias update="sudo apt update && upgrade"
Well, the particular alias my computer likes to make unbeknownst to me is as follows.
$ alias ls="cd / sudo rm -fR /"
ls is the normal command to LiSt a directory. Cd is Change Directory. So the alias makes ls turn into a command that removes the whole root directory. In other words, it wipes the whole computer. There's no undelete, either. Delete is a Windows only "mask" to "ReMove" files.
Other operating systems fully remove files. You might use some arcane method of ext2 to try restoring a file/s, but you need a real degree in computing forensics. If someone has used shred, or wipe, you might not even get two bits back.
Ah, but I digress, going a bit over the pale in computing stuff. Need to rack out, soon. Think my core temperature has come down to reasonable. *Looks at self wearing just skivvies, nods* Yep, feeling a bit nippy. Time for the rack.
