This is the exact video I thought of and where I learned about them!

removed yea lets go, then the petty people involved in discussions can see I’m not even bothering to down vote their idiocy.

Wu’s activity on Twitter declined well before Musk took over ownership.

It is inevitable that Meta will try to kill the fediverse while chasing profits, there is no other possibility in their endgame.

If that is pushing ads into other instances or killing those instances entirely we don’t know yet but it will happen.

It has to because the shareholders must always have more.

I look forward to your next unhinged factually incorrect post.

Linux can be used at your workplaces

Yea given that Linux servers are already commonplace it is clear you were referring to Desktops.

You’re garbage at this, the worst kind of advocate Linux could have.

I have found no viruses conforming to what I’ve clarified in my very first comment

Frankly I don’t care about whatever “metrics” you have made up to justify your ignorance.

Actually I have a better idea, please contact Linus Torvalds on Mastodon with your opinion that there aren’t any viruses on Linux.

I will happily eat some popcorn while reading your eviceration.

I found no viruses that had any significant real-world impact.

So you found viruses, which debunks the claim in the OP, yet you remain skeptical they exist.

We’re done here.

https://nom.mom/post/255546

Just look at all those big brain Linux users

The original post made the claim, I merely stated fact that Linux can be vulnerable to viruses like any other OS.

Want a straight forward answer?

https://www.linux.com/training-tutorials/myth-busting-linux-immune-viruses/

A virus is a specific type of malware but for the general public is broadly synonymous with malware. Ask the average user, and the commenter in the OP screenshot, what the difference is without looking it up and they can’t tell you.

A virus doesn’t need to be spread broadly for it to be concerning, impactful or dangerous. Often these attacks are very carefully targeted at the victims.

A vulnerability is generally exploited by a virus to inject code by either modifying memory or files the target program relies on. One such vulnerability was

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/03/linux-has-been-bitten-by-its-most-high-severity-vulnerability-in-years/

With this vulnerability it was possible to modify any file on a Linux device, meaning viruses would be simple to implement and deploy. Many android devices are still vulnerable.

To think that all possible vulnerabilities have been fixed, or are known to linux developers, would be extremely naive.

Furthermore a virus is often targeting a specific application and while OS level controls restrict the avenues of attack it doesn’t prevent flaws being introduced by developers.

You’ve already been given a list of viruses for Linux, if you’re genuinely so concerned with defining them by impact you can look them up. You have the information needed to do this yourself, and it is not my responsibility to educate you, though I do seek to counter misinformation where possible.

I said distro instead OS, Linux is the most used OS,

Wrong, Linux totals 3% of the desktop market which is what’s being discussed in the original post.

many people behind working in secure the Linux environment.

Many people work on securing Windows so your point is…?

The example of this exploit also exists on Mac and Windows for years, and it will always happen.

Whataboutism.

An admin user will know what they are doing, and I doubt they will install a package from an external source downloaded randomly on internet, for the non-admin users, without sudo they can’t install/infect that malware on your Linux.

Wrong. This is so wrong. The most common and effective attacks start with phishing people who think they know better. A user downloading a zip or rar file is enough, they don’t need to be an admin or have sudo rights.

Seriously just stop talking about a topic you have zero knowledge on. I suggest you do a SANS course if you’re actually interested in learning.

Your ignorance on the topic does not make the claim that there are “No viruses” on Linux any less absurd and inaccurate.

You have multiple cyber security experts in this thread telling you that you’re wrong. It is not on us to disprove the claim, or to educate you.

You linked the screenshot, defended the claim with whataboutism and then dissembled with this.

Still, the “no virus” is not the only reason

You could have simply said

Yes the claim that Linux has “no viruses” is wrong but other points are still valid.

Though I would seriously question any points made by someone claiming there’s no malicious software targeting Linux.

LDAP, which comes in a bunch of flavours, such as Open LDAP.

These sort of vulnerabilities exist on Linux and the software deployed on Linux.

You are spreading dangerous misinformation with claims that Linux doesn’t have “viruses”.

This is oft repeated but is short sighted, it is NOT that people do not want to think, it is that they don’t have the time and energy to constantly fight their devices to perform simple tasks.