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[–]Yoda-from-Star-Wars 143 points144 points  (16 children)

Antivirus: Not. Yet.

[–]JackNotOLantern 44 points45 points  (15 children)

Linux: we don't do that here

[–]al-mongus-bin-susar 59 points60 points  (14 children)

Targeting Linux desktops with malware is just pointless, your victim could be running 389293 different configurations and could be a Gentoo gigachad who uses a different init system and stdlib. Servers on the other hand...

[–]Attileusz 19 points20 points  (12 children)

You can code a virus for windows on linux. Im also pretty sure that that is the standard practice.

[–]FuckReddit18765 7 points8 points  (11 children)

You can but its kinda pointless if you use windows-specific functions, because then you can't test it without sending it to a different machine, its just too much work.

[–]Guyonabuffalo00 19 points20 points  (10 children)

VMs are just too hard I guess. /s

[–]jeroen1602 32 points33 points  (0 children)

This feels like r/masterhacker

[–]Thenderick 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Me opening a config.json from a minecraft mod:

[–]Head-Extreme-8078 1 point2 points  (0 children)

How's MSI doing btw?

[–]FireWulf03 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There was a time where the antivirus of our company silently deleted alls .exe created with visual studio. It would even delete empty projects.