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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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I secure systems for my day job. That means installing AV software, ensuring Windows Firewall is ON, etc. (Plus many other things...)

I've seen discussions around disk encryption here, but I don't recall much about a malware protection. Maybe a little about personal (desktop) firewalls.

I'm aware of Clam, etc, but is anyone actually using these tools much?

Or are we just presuming we're all immune from the bad guys targeting Windows?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Disk encryption is purely for preventing local access to your data. Nothing else.

Then you only download software from official repos and flathub (see my list on how to only allow verified or FOSS apps)

You mount the entire rest of the system non-executable and you have no malware!

Also you should not have a sudo user, use a seperate admin with wheel/sudo group.

Those things dont work well yet, so be careful.