[Trisquel-users] Re : Ransomware in Trisquel/Ubuntu

[lcerf]

The real strength from a security perspective for GNU/Linux is that the user  
doesn't have root access by default. If a malicious program wants to make  
system changes, it must prompt you for the password.

This is entirely true... but ransomware can encrypt the user files not  
prompting for any password (in the same way that you need not input any  
password to access your files).