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  • Surp@lemmy.world
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    You laugh but windows defender is awesome. People give windows shit but the reason it’s attacked the most is because of it’s market share being above and beyond leaps and bounds sun vs tiny fleck of dust in space os market shares that Linux and Mac os have. No one’s wasting time hacking the tiny stuff as much just because its a numbers game. Guarenfuckingtee you if Linux was number one market share OS it would be getting attacked way more often than any other OS as well. Dont kid yourselves.

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      macOS and Linux have additional security features at a system level, on Linux most software comes through controlled repositories or sandboxed flatpaks. There are also tons of multi million dollar companies that constantly try to find and fix kernel level vulnerabilities and a distro like Debian, which is very popular for servers, has had less major vulnerabilities than windows 7 throughout its entire lifecycle and Debian exists for other 30 years. So I’d say Linux is would have a few less (different) attacks

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    Most Windows Programs running with root access is like, I don’t know… Windows XP era maybe?

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      This is Linuxmemes, what did you expect?

      Up-to-date knowledge of other systems? lol

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      Windows ME was the last edition to make this assumption. NT was never like that.

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        UAC was introduced with vista, IIRC in xp any program would inherit the privileges of the user running them

  • katy ✨@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    windows defender is better than how it used to be where had to buy an expensive proprietary av or download clam av and hope for the best

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    The only secure Windows is Windows 1.0. There is no network stack in it, and nobody would want to use it anyway.

    Anything else is up for grabs.

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      It’s way too reliant on their cloud infrastructure though, causing it to detect and react to malware slower than other solutions and it turns to shit the second the network disconnects. The PC security channel on YouTube has some good analysis of it.

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    Windows NT 3.5 and later NT 4 had C2 security certifications - assuming the system was not connected to a network, and didn’t have floppy drives (this was before USB was a thing).