linux isnt immune to viruses even though its not as bad as windows
what should i do to be safe if i have a safe browser, vm, but pirate and download risky things? i know its a vm but i still dont want to have to delete everything in the vm if something happens. also the malware doesnt go to the router and spread rigt???
don’t get software from random sites and use your package manager with distro provided repo only
Honestly the biggest things are don’t run shit as root and don’t expose port 22. Especially don’t run things you downloaded from some website as root but in general just don’t run things as root. That’ll handle most problems that are likely to arise.
I’ll also add that if you do enable SSH and are stupid enough to expose port 22, then at least make sure you have key-based authentication instead of password authentication and keep your keys safe.
I have always kept everything airgapped, the best security is isolation.
I download stuff to a tablet, with nothing of value or interest on it, dump it to the sd card, then move it to the offline systems with a USB card reader.
Even my servers (mostly ARM SBCs with one RISC-V) were set up to work over a wired offline network.
Also most of my pirated stuff is things I own that I yarred for the crack if it was more convenient than cracking it myself.
Not gonna lie, that sounds like overkill unless you’re doing something massively illegal. Your system makes no sense for preventing detection of torrent downloading since the download to the tablet could be detected just like the download to a server, and any precaution to avoid torrent surveillance on the tablet could easily be done on the server itself.
So…are you doing something massively illegal? Take a seat…
Use Qubes OS. Do not update anything including Tor browser and the OS. Just install the new version as soon as it is released on Qubes OS website. Otherwise you will probably get a virus. I know this from experience, please take this into account
Unsure if you’re joking or not
I’m not joking. I have experienced it a couple of times
You know you can build Qubes from source right? You know you have checksums? Do you know how difficult it is to compromise something like fucking Qubes, thee OS built by people who spend upwards of 12 hours a day obsessing about cyber security? There are too many eyes on it. It’s like saying Emacs is compromised.
I’m not blaming Qubes OS, I’m blaming fedora. I know that Qubes OS itself is reputable and reliable. What do you mean with building from source? So you don’t use the default updater?
I’m sorry, I misread. I thought you wrote to not use Qubes. Do you have any sources regarding the stuff about Fedora? I don’t mean to deboonk you, I am genuinely curious and I dislike fedora anyway for being so commercially oriented.
I myself have experienced it. Of course it would be a very big event if something like that came out from a youtuber but I assure you that Im sure of it because of cosmetic changes in fonts and a lot of slow downs
I mean fonts can change due to updates. Let’s say I update KDE, I might break my theming completely.
Pick a piracy site you can trust. It makes things easier.
I rather recommend torrents and download files named like “Rihanna.mp3.exe”. This is to my knowledge the most secure source.
You’re totally right, the .exe stands for excellence. /s
Take regular VM snapshots and never forget that exploits can breach the VM
what do u do to stop it (before it happens) tho??
Don’t download shady shit
