Hans Witvliet wrote:
You're absolutely correct on most points. Nix viruses are much harder to create, and its "intended audience" much smaller.
But are you willing to accept that 1% chance (probably much, much smaller)? Being defaced or loosing contracts because of delays, sensitive info brought into the open, loss of life?
What are you going to say to your employer/judge? I could have done something about it, but i thought the chances it would happer were too slim?
Better safe then sorry, unless the concequenses are none (to you).
There is naturally a correlation between the risk and the effort. For instance there is a nonzero probability that a new years reveler will shoot a gun into the air, the bullet will come back down at a high velocity, penetrate your roof and kill you. So, you've reinforced your roof to make it bulletproof, correct? After all, better safe than sorry! Is the concept of a unix virus theoretically possible? Of course. Do I worry that unix will somehow suffer microsoft-like virus issues? No. Joe -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org