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Do you use an antivirus? Why, or why not? (lemmy.kde.social)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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.

Oh for sure, I 100% agree! My reply was more of an educational "Hey, in case you've run into this before, this is a great way to prevent it from occurring again" sort of deal. No one is born with all-encompassing knowledge of the world and everything/anything they could ever interact with, and subsequently no one should be faulted for running into something like phishing scams where they're designed to exploit someone's potential lack of knowledge or even as you mentioned, a lapse in judgment.

I normally am good about avoiding phishing scams but almost fell victim to one because a close trusted friend of mine had their account compromised, and sent a link to something on Steam that seemed in line with what they'd normally bring up with me - and it was exactly the fact that my password manager didn't prompt me to fill in my Steam login details on that fake page that prevented me from trying to login.

(Well that and I do have Steam Guard/MFA enabled, but still)