With the increase popularity of the linux desktop and the steamdeck, will new viruses and malwares be developed for linux systems? should we better use an antivirus?

  • cokane_88@lemmy.fmhy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Nope… Raw dawg that shit online.

    I wonder how people get phished on IG and FB. Like the get account taken over and blackmailed over a social media account… That shit baffles me. I’m pretty sure I know how they get phished but I’m just shocked it happens to smart people.

    • BaumGeist@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      Smart people are not immune to moments of panic or laziness or cockiness. I don’t know about you, but I don’t always check email headers even tho that’s the closest to best way to verify the identity of the sender. And if that link verifiably goes to a website I trust, and I was expecting them to reach out, and I just have to login to check my orders and… wait, why does the url have a “redir=” parameter? Oh fuck oh god oh fuck why does the login page say “amzaon.com” instead of “amazon.com” like in the email’s link??? FUCK DAMMIT SHIT

      • russjr08@outpost.zeuslink.net
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        1 year ago

        And if that link verifiably goes to a website I trust, and I was expecting them to reach out, and I just have to login to check my orders and… wait, why does the url have a “redir=” parameter? Oh fuck oh god oh fuck why does the login page say “amzaon.com” instead of “amazon.com” like in the email’s link??? FUCK DAMMIT SHIT

        This is definitely a situation where having a password manager with auto-filling is nice. When you save your login for amazon.com it ties it to the URL as well. So if you end up going to amzaon.com by any means and don’t manage to catch it, your password manager won’t fill in your details because it doesn’t recognize the domain.

        Of course, this won’t stop you from say, using one of the “Login with Google/Apple/Amazon/etc” buttons on some dodgy website, and granting it access to your account (because you’d be redirected to google.com / apple.com / amazon.com) but it’s at least an layer of “Wait, something isn’t right here” when the auto-fill doesn’t trigger.

        • BaumGeist@lemmy.ml
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          1 year ago

          Password managers are an absolute must-have in this day and age. That and MFA. And making as few accounts as humanly possible.

          But, the more general concepts I’m trying to get at are that pobody’s nerfect, you don’t know what you don’t know you don’t know, and we’re all just apes prone to lapses in judgment at innoportune times.