Reply to post: Re: It's nearly 2020 ...

ATTK of the Pwns: Trend Micro's antivirus tools 'will run malware – if its filename is cmd.exe'

jake Silver badge

Re: It's nearly 2020 ...

My mom and aging GreatAunt have been using the Slackware distribution of Linux for years ... and haven't had any malware problems the entire time, with zero anti-malware software running. Both are functionally computer illiterate. I could have put them on BSD instead, the interface that they interact with would look and act the same on either OS.

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