NemeskiAvast fined $16.5 million for ‘privacy’ software that actually sold users’ browsing data
Aniki 🌱🌿Not having to worry about antivirus software, by itself, is reason enough to use Linux. That’s not to say that there aren’t but the vectors are so much more obscure than Winblows.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_malware
I’d suggest you start worrying then.
If you intentionally start downloading malicious binaries and scripts, then no freaking magic AI-accelerated from the future anti-virus would protect you.
In Linux we don’t download any binaries (.exe) at all. Everything is from trustes repositories, which, btw, are validated using checksums and TLS certificates. Not perfect, but like 99.9% more secure than going to phishing site and downloading binary.