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?

  • MentalEdge
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    7 months ago

    Depends on the malware.

    With total access, nothing would prevent the malicious code from modifying the task viewer itself to make it ignore the resources it is using.

    Accounting for every way malware might be discovered is difficult, but with enough system access, it’s all possible.

    • somethingsomethingidk@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      It also depends on the viewer. I remember using prctl() in C to chamge a process name and top showed my change but htop didn’t. I’m sure a competent malware writer would be able to trick it though