Viruses and attacks

Priveee

Does off the shelf and the standard viruses or attacks designed for android work the same on GOS or do they have no effect if they aren’t engineered for a pixel or maybe GOS? I am sure GOS is definitely better than stock android at this but how much? How many and what kind can it fend off?

Dumdum

Priveee
They should have little effect, if any, on GOS.

Plenty of information can be found on the website, which should be helpful:
https://grapheneos.org/features#exploit-protection (includes Attack Surface reduction, Exploit mitigations, Improved sandboxing and Anti-persistence sections)
https://grapheneos.org/features#more-complete-patching

doublefree

The most viruses will trick the user to install an apk from some phishy site and give it (dangerous) permissions. The second most Android viruses will exploit years old vulnerabilities. There are to many Android devices out there with no or delayed security updates. The rest (i.e. Zero Day for fully patched Android) might be harder to defend. GOS however will give you the best exploit protection you can get for an Android device.