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