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Torrenting on Linux (leminal.space)

submitted 3 months ago by fueledbyramen@leminal.space to c/linuxmint@lemmy.ml

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I used to torrent a lot many years ago, before the rise of streaming services, and back then relied on what people told me: you don't have to worry about malware when you have a Mac.

I've been thinking about torrenting a few things that are pretty much unobtainable any other way but I worry about the security aspect. I've seen people say that with Linux there's no need to worry but simply trusting this seems careless to me now and I wanted to ask your views on this.

Do you torrent and are there any additional precautions one should take? Thank you :)

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[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 1 points 3 months ago

Wine has enabled some viruses to work on Linux. So, be careful with windows executables. Other than that, there are a few malwares that target Linux, and Debian based distros like Mint being the most popular, they're more likely to be targeted.