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Message: <blockquote data-quote="penguinruwan" data-source="post: 13972813" data-attributes="member: 118575">It is possible to get a virus for Ubuntu, but:  <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The way most Linux distributions are built make it very hard for  virus/trojans/backdoors to take advantage of vulnerabilities in binary  packages. Ubuntu changes every six months (and updates --sometimes  anoying-- land at least every week). It makes it very difficult for a  virus author to track all these changes. In contrast, windows takes  several years to change. That gives some time to the virus author to try  to be as destructive/invasive as it can.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">AFAIK, there is a substantial difficulty to "leak" binary code or  suspicious source code to Ubuntu's Official or Debian's official  packaging systems.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">There might be 3 ways to infect a Linux box: <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">You 've been running Linux for years without updating any of your internet-facing services/apps.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">You installed a virus/trojan by yourself.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">You downloaded the virus in source code, compiled it and ran it with administrator privileges <img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/default/wink.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)" data-shortname=";)" /></li> </ul></li> </ul>                          </blockquote>

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