Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4020 mails)

["Paul W. Abrahams" <abrahams@xxxxxxx>]

On Sunday 03 October 2004 12:40 am, Maura Edelweiss Monville wrote:
> It's well known that Linux is not affected by any of the viruses that 
> catch Windows as soon as the computer is turned on ...
> Nevertheless Linux is affected by spyware. My computer is unfortunately 
> a victim of this form of advertising although I've been running SuSE 
> since I bought it  3 years ago.
> I'd appreciate some help to get  rid of these parasitic processes 
> dwelling in my computer.
> Thank you in advance.

I'm puzzled by this.  So far Linux has not been an attractive target for 
parasites -- why waste your effort on a system with such a small market share 
(even though, as we all know, it deserves a far bigger one)?   Aren't all 
those spywares system-specific?

Paul Abrahams