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What about malware on Linux?

Here's how the argument might go if you were to ask that question:

Malware is impossible on Linux because Linux is secure by design, unlike Windows.
Even if Linux malware were possible, users would have to agree to run it, so that wouldn't count.
Even if users agreed to run it, they wouldn't be root, so that wouldn't count.
Even if they were root, who cares? There isn't any malware for Linux, so there.
The simple truth, of course, is that Linux is much more similar to Windows – in design, implementation and real-world security – than it is different.

As a result: there is malware for Linux; it can do plenty of harm even if you aren't root; and it may be able to infect without you realising.

Just like on Windows.

For all that, the "malware scene" on Linux simply never unfolded like it did on Windows, because the vast

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http://www.scoop.it/t/securite-pc-et-internet/?tag=Linux

ESET researchers have issued a technical paper today, analysing a new worm that is infecting routers in order to commit social networking fraud, hijacking victims’ internet connections in order to “like” posts and pages, “view” videos and “follow” other accounts.

The malware, dubbed Linux/Moose by researchers Olivier Bilodeau and Thomas Dupuy, infects Linux-based routers and other Linux-based devices, eradicating existing malware infections it might find competing for the router’s limited resources, and automatically finding other routers to infect.

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- http://www.scoop.it/t/securite-pc-et-internet/?tag=Router