Chance of getting malware?
by The_Dark_Passenger from LinuxQuestions.org on (#4RCF6)
Hello,
I'm curious about my use case, and the chance of getting malware that would actually effect my system. I work for a web hosting company, and run Slackware64 -current on my workstation. Pretty stock full install with KDE4 and few addon programs.
Sometimes our clients send us png, jpg, pdf, docx, and eml files regarding issues. I scan these with clamav and virustotal and they come back clean. However, what chances could there be malware that would actually effect my install? Is there really any active Linux malware targeting desktop systems? Eveything I've opened so far as either been in less, Thunderbird, Libreoffice, and Gwenview. Everything is kept up to date. Is there any active in the wild exploits for these applications on Linux?
Additionally, clamav and chkrootkit scans have come back clean. I am now opening files in a VM to be extra safe. I'm just wondering how much of a risk there has been till now. I also never run any scripts and nothing has been opened as root.
Any thoughts and discussions appreciated.
I'm curious about my use case, and the chance of getting malware that would actually effect my system. I work for a web hosting company, and run Slackware64 -current on my workstation. Pretty stock full install with KDE4 and few addon programs.
Sometimes our clients send us png, jpg, pdf, docx, and eml files regarding issues. I scan these with clamav and virustotal and they come back clean. However, what chances could there be malware that would actually effect my install? Is there really any active Linux malware targeting desktop systems? Eveything I've opened so far as either been in less, Thunderbird, Libreoffice, and Gwenview. Everything is kept up to date. Is there any active in the wild exploits for these applications on Linux?
Additionally, clamav and chkrootkit scans have come back clean. I am now opening files in a VM to be extra safe. I'm just wondering how much of a risk there has been till now. I also never run any scripts and nothing has been opened as root.
Any thoughts and discussions appreciated.