Virus??

[Mousikos]

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How do you know linux doesn't have a NSA backdoor? When was the last time you looked through the kernel source code? What about your distributions? Do you know how each part of your operating system works? Stop spreading FUD.

Adblocks and paying attention to the URL isn't everything. DNS Hijacking? I had that happen to be with spybot before.

How fast do you think URL redirect works? Or do you not trust the people who write your browser plugins to detect that?

Do you know why a trojan horse is called a trojan horse? A trojan horse masquerades as something you'd /want/ to download but is actually malware. How do you suppose you're going to stop that with "adblockers and looking at URLs"?

And don't you assume linux is perfect.

Do you remember this? http://www.securityweek.com/ssh-backdoor...x-rootkits

In, I think, the 3.2 version of the kernel buried somewhere inside there is a comment similar to "THIS IS BADLY WRITTEN".

Don't assume GNU/BSD is perfect. Did you know OS X is based on FreeBSD, among other things? Check this out: http://macscan.securemac.com/spyware-list

I don't really know what you against Windows.

lets add a twist to this.

I code my own compiler and for each character on the keyboard i internally bind a backdoor function (say a keylogger) and I build an operating system out of that compiler.

In the end privacy and security is dead and a new meaning of freedom is born.

How would you feel?

I feel like you're a god damn conspiracy theorist and that you never actually responded to my post. How do you know gcc doesn't do what you mention? How do you know clang++ doen't have those things? When was the last time you went through the source code of every single program you have on your computer?

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People still use anti-virus?

Yes.

I have retired 4 computers that had no viruses ever while they were in my possession...
I haven't had an anti-virus program on my laptop (Windows 7/ Crunchbang) for 2 years.... and my desktop for the past year (Windows 8.1/ Crunchbang)

Neither of my computers have any viruses whatsoever.

I think you just have to stop looking up porn, downloading files from sketchy sources, and not click on advertisements..... idk, but I haven't had a problem with viruses since once in the early days of XP..... and I was actually living in a house full of people at the time that used my pc often, so I don't even think that counts...

This doesn't mean I think you don't need anti-virus... plenty of people do,
but I would choose Kaspersky personally....

A computer virus is a type of malware that, when executed, replicates by inserting copies of itself (possibly modified) into other computer programs, data files, or the boot sector of the hard drive; when this replication succeeds, the affected areas are then said to be "infected".[1][2][3] Viruses often perform some type of harmful activity on infected hosts, such as stealing hard disk space or CPU time, accessing private information, corrupting data, displaying political or humorous messages on the user's screen, spamming their contacts, or logging their keystrokes.

Besides the obviously detectable things such as HDD space, CPU time, and trolling... Please tell me exactly how you have determined that you don't have a software keylogger?