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GeekyBear | 21 days ago

How does antivirus software protect users who paste malicious commands they find online into the terminal?

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quamserena|21 days ago

By scanning downloaded binaries for known viruses?

GeekyBear|21 days ago

A text command pasted into the terminal isn't a binary.

Convincing a Linux user to paste rm -rf / into the terminal is not malware. It's social engineering.

Scanning binaries for known malware is already built into the OS.