On the laptop is the only axis - Ubuntu. Sometimes they give me familiar flash drives, write this and that. And then they say that there are many viruses on the flash drive after me. Interested question. Viruses written for Windows have no effect on Linux. And can they somehow multiply / be transmitted to other media via Linux? That is, could a virus get on a friend’s flash drive if I didn’t send it there explicitly.

  • If an infected file was downloaded or recorded, then although the virus will not work on the line in any way, it will be activated when transferred to Windows. By the way, there are versions of popular antivirus programs for lin (DrWeb, NOD32, etc.) + free freeware. You can install and check your computer, and suddenly something is sitting somewhere and napping. - skegg
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    @mikillskegg - yes, the reason for the fact that almost no viruses are ever under the line is that nothing is done without your permission, but that it is not profitable to write viruses under it =). Compare 90% + window users and about 1% with a line - Zowie
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    Banal holivar on a virus under the line suggest to close. In addition, it is 100% offtop. One last note. Gentlemen of the wind worshipers, well, write at least for academic interest at least one serious virus under Linux. I would be very interested in looking at him. Surely it should be a masterpiece of programmer thought. - skegg pm
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    I'm interested too =) - Zowie
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    I’m almost sure that everything is actually very trite - people see system files like .trash (this is a basket in line and poppy who does not know) and perceive them as viruses because do not know what it is. I myself saw such a reaction from a person, and then it turned out that he had just inserted a flash drive for the first time into his poppy before. - aknew

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Viruses on XP, on exe mostly and on scripts, on Linux-e this can not be, because programs can not be run without your permission, but on XP it can be.

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    Themselves for a long time nowhere running, the vast majority of infections - handles uncomprehending or deceived users. And under GNU / Linux, do not deceive (by replacing the executable binary with the icon with a “folder”, aha) just because the metadata system is still one big ugly crutch a la gvfs-metadata that cannot be transferred. - drdaeman

I could of course. Nobody bothers for udev to write the rules that will copy all the muck on the flash drive when it is inserted. Viruses written for Windows "happy schoolboy" may well run under wine. Check it out for yourself.

But there is one way how a virus could have gotten for sure. You copied a flash drive from someone, and then copied it to a friend. The virus files for Linux will be harmless, but they will come to life again under Windows.

On the other hand, for most, it does not matter that you have Ubunt. The important thing is that there is no antivirus :) Therefore, you have the virus, and not all of those other "friends with Windows and antivirus."

    From a comment by @aknew :

    I am almost sure that everything is actually very trite - people see system files like .trash (who do not know, this is a basket in line and poppy) and perceive them as viruses, because they do not know what it is. I myself saw such a reaction from a person, and then it turned out that he had just inserted a flash drive for the first time into his poppy before.