how to avoid malware in ubuntu linux? (programming.dev)

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i just switched to it from windows 11 and im pretty used to using windows defender,so not having one here feels weird. i pirate a lot from fmhy.net with brave browser adblocker.

is there anything i should do?

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[-] ugo@feddit.it 4 points 2 hours ago

Did ubuntu fix the issue where if a package with the same name exists in both the actual repository and in the snap store, it will silently install the one from the snap store?

I remember an attack where someone uploaded a package to the snap store with the same name as a different repo package, and people were downloading the “malicious” (it wasn’t actually malicious, just a proof of the attack vector) package instead.

If they haven’t fixed that yet, then yeah can’t trust the package manager either, on ubuntu specifically.

[-] Goodeye8@piefed.social 1 points 52 minutes ago

Last time I checked (which was somewhere within the last 3 years) not only will the snap version get installed but if you force a non-snap version of the software and do an update it will replace the non-snap version with the snap version. It's the kind of idiotic shit I'd expect from Microsoft.

[-] KssioAug@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

I don't know if Ubuntu has fixed it, because trying to enforce their Snap store was intentional. But I can't say for sure because there have been years that I don't use it.

But yeah, for anyone using it, I'd recommend to just remove Snap entirely, since it's totally unnecessary and goes against pretty much every Linux core concept.

Or just use something like Kubuntu or Linux Mint, that have Ubuntu under hood but are more community driven instead of relying on Canonical.

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