Mastodawn

linux doesn't have malware if you don't count seventeen malicious npm packages per second as malware

windows doesn't have malware because it's not profitable to target windows users in 2026

@pierogiburo
Microsoft doesn't seem to agree, they are still targettin Windows users.

@pierogiburo There's also the " fun" world of worms and rootkits.

@pierogiburo don't forget browser extensions 😅

@pierogiburo "seventeen MalHertz", even comes with a cool warez z ootb

@pierogiburo There you said it, npm packages. They didn't come from your distro's repository.

@pierogiburo i just consider the whole npm as malware and have interacted with it exactly zero times

@pierogiburo I have a good antivirus: I dont develop with node.

@pierogiburo If you've installed a js runtime, you've already lost.

@pierogiburo
And only one, if I count npm itself as malware?

@pierogiburo pypi be like, "hold my beer"

@pierogiburo no such thing as malware if I don't remember what I installed. 👍

@pierogiburo that's a unit I had not prepared myself enough to read