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0 pointsabhinavk2y ago0 comments

If you stick to your distribution repositories, flathub/snapstore and never run `curl | bash` from untrusted sources, you would be fine.

And if I have to run your bespoke program, I will use a sandbox or VM whether an antivirus is running or not.

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chgs2y ago· 2 in thread

And if you do your AV program wouldn’t catch it anyway.

m0002y ago

I rember many years ago trying to run netcat [1] on Windows for some tests. AV: Blocked as "hacking tool".

I asked a friend who happened to have Visual Studio installed to build it for me from source. AV: No problemo!

chgs2y ago

Did you try renaming it to “notnetcathonest.exe”?

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