Le 11/12/2009 13:27, Basil Chupin a écrit :
From your response, and from other responses I have read, it seems that all these responses are skirting around this very basic question of security: is openSUSE impenetrable or not?
of course not
suffer the same hernia as any MS or Apple OS now can suffer from malware?
I don't know for Apple, but on windows it's nearly impossible to run it securely, that is it's much easier to compromise the system than on Linux. As there are also much more windows computers, we see quite often warnings on the TV about viruses. Did you see any for Linux? Linux is more secure by history. nearly no Linux run with user having raw root permissions. This makes it much more difficult for malware to work. not impossible. Microsoft could never enforce the simple fact that no application should use an other place than the user account to store data, this is aid shortly why the viruses works. Msoft wants users to be as confident as they can on they computer, taking the risk. And users do like it. I remember one "windows virus" that was a simple letter saying: "search for this file (name was given in the mail), if you find it, you will see that his icon is a small bear. It's a virus, remove it!!" this file did exists, was perfectly normal and even mandatory to windows work, however, this couldn't prevent many users from removing it only on the faith of a mail and on thinking having a little bear as icon was a proof of being a virus. same thing can happen on Linux... jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://valerie.dodin.org http://news.opensuse.org/2009/04/13/people-of-opensuse-jean-daniel-dodin/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org