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... with the firewall being repeatedly shutoff, I realized that that the the webpage with the second set of updates listed had been fake....that the virus had slipped in and grabbed my linux admin privileges in some way, to ensure its spread...(It openly reveals itself only in survival/spread situations). ...

To add to the other reasons...In short programs written for windows do NOT run on Linux...
Least wise, without wine installed, as stated on pjotr's web site #3, do not install wine or mono.

You might find this page interesting, that I've written about security in Linux Mint:
https://easylinuxtipsproject.blogspot.c ... urity.html

Please open the System Reports app and click the System Information tab on the left. Your computer's information should come up in the right pane. Click the Copy button and then paste the results into a reply window here so we can see how Linux Mint views your hardware. No need to use code tags beca...

Hello Maor,
Welcome to Linux Mint Forum, enjoy the journey!

it won't work on your LinuxMint System
- as stated above - it won't have the necessary system permissions.
even it did manage, to somehow, get copied over, from the windows system.

Hello and welcome to the forum. If I catch a virus on windows, is it possible, that it moves also to the mint drive? Yes, but it would be harmless since it doesn't have execute permissions. My guess is if you gave it execute permissions and executed ...

I have mint and windows on two different drives on my notebook. If I catch a virus on windows, is it possible, that it moves also to the mint drive? When I boot up mint, I can see the windows drive and would meet to eject it manually.

... The first computer I installed LM on was an ancient (2007) Dell E1505 which surprised me by being 64 bit capable. Everything went well. I saw no virus activity on this machine, after BIOS reset, and new drive installation. I started using it to make bootable USB drives The second installation, ...

I have to kinda doubt that a virus that ran on windows would also run on linux. If I understand this right, You got "some unknown" software installed (i.e. this virus) when doing updates? If you post your hardware profile we can ...

I have been wrestling with a major self-adapting virus in Win 10/11 for 10 months. It falls into the 10-20% of viruses that are not detectible by most AV software. Only Catchpulse flagged unsigned Win files attempting to get by. I have decided it ...

... someone who spent almost 20 years on the Internet and testing alpha-grade software on a Windows 98SE machine with no firewall and no resident anti-virus. And by the way, that system was (and still is) not a vanilla installation but heavily upgraded with libraries taken from various newer OS versions ...

... hardware to run windows 10, particularly something to do with sticking code in flash on the motherboard. Kind of sounds scary to me in any case. Virus, even with good AV running, wasn't enough to handle the vulnerabilities. I was thinking about buying a new computer, but being familiar with Solaris ...

It is an indication that the site is infected by the AH virus, usually upper management.

I suspect that it is more likely to be a browser misdirect/hijack rather than a virus in Linux. They can be time consuming to get rid of. The first thing to do is to try a completely different Browser. If it is a hijack then you should see no signs of the previous ...

I couldn't get rid of that "virus" fast enough after installing it. It started assigning itself as the default app for all kinds of different apps on my machine. I ask myself why I wasn't confronted with that "virus". ...

I couldn't get rid of that "virus" fast enough after installing it. It started assigning itself as the default app for all kinds of different apps on my machine. I ask myself why I wasn't confronted with that "virus". ...

... ALL of my system viewer Defaults. it just blatingly made every file on my system Default to Ooppa PDFStudio. I couldn't get rid of that "virus" fast enough after installing it. It started assigning itself as the default app for all kinds of different apps on my machine.

... and others like it, are now susceptible to possible security vulnerabilities? I know, before anyone posts, you are far less likely to get a virus or malware or whatever on linux, but do abandoned programs like this one, pose a possible threat/more of a threat, because they have been abandoned, ...

... PM... Brave is indeed available via Mint's own "Software manager" (not to be confused with the "Package manager"). Regarding virus protection and stuff, there's a stickied thread in the "Beginner Questions" sub-forum on this very topic: https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=358408 ...