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Is it Important to have anti Malware for Linux and if so what would you recommend?
Linux Anti Maleware.
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There's always a chance, but it's really small with *nix.
Your biggest problem would be running unknown commands, such as this one:
Called a fork bomb! Forks a process until the computer crashes from running out of memory 
Your biggest problem would be running unknown commands, such as this one:
Code:
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There's always a chance, but it's really small with *nix.
Your biggest problem would be running unknown commands, such as this one:
Called a fork bomb! Forks a process until the computer crashes from running out of memoryCode::(){ :|:& };:
To add-on... that means don't run that
.I'm going to put that in my sig.
or maybe the Windows version of it.
I'm sure people will just love you for that.
It depends on many factors. Malware for Linux does exist but the chances to get it are much lower than on other Platforms. This however, does not make it impossible. The classical threat to Unix-like systems is vulnerabilities in network daemons, such as SSH and web servers. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_malware for details.
