If you have the Brave Browser installed on your Windows devices, then you may also have Brave VPN services installed on the machine. Brave installs these services without user consent on Windows devices.

Brave Firewall + VPN is an extra service that Brave users may subscribe to for a monthly fee. Launched in mid-2022, it is a cooperation between Brave Software, maker of Brave Browser, and Guardian, the company that operates the VPN and the firewall solution. The firewall and VPN solution is available for $9.99 per month.

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I don’t use Windows but if you install a program that requires a service on Linux, the service will be written to your system’s services daemon awaiting your activation. I don’t see what the issue with that is.

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What’s to stop the installer on Linux from configuring the service such that the service always runs on boot? e.g. systemctl enable malware.service.

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You still need to manually enable the service. The configuration of the service has zero effect on its activation or lifecycle.

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Huh? Any script can create a service, enable it and then start it. What would make you think the brave package (or just the application itself) can’t do this?

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Linux doesn’t have “installers” as Linux uses package managers. The only way you can get malware is if you manually add a bad repo.

So it doesn’t really matter in the long run

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Linux doesn’t have “installers” as Linux uses package managers. The only way you can get malware is if you manually add a bad repo.

Are you really serious making this claim? lol.

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