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[–] 6 points 2 months ago* (2 children)

What about Linux is easier than a similarly prepped windows device?

Unless it’s changed recently, windows you just need to press a button during load (like bios) to boot into safe mode. And from there you can reload a variety of “snapshots” to recover from most malware issues.

How is Linux easier than that, I don’t use Linux, but windows is incredibly simple already.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Mostly that the malware has a much higher chance of escaping containment on a Windows install, because it's designed to attack Windows.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago*

    Do you not know what loading a recovery snap shot does? It doesn’t matter if it escapes. Whatever was new is removed since it’s restoring your harddrive to a previous state. It’s like a backup harddrive, without being external.

    There’s ways for the malware to disable recovery mode, but I would assume the same could happen to Linux as well.

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