On Fri, 2004-10-01 at 17:41, Paul W. Abrahams wrote:
On Friday 01 October 2004 2:31 pm, James Knott wrote:
Patrick B. O'Brien wrote:
Is anybody out there using any good, free, virus protection software?
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How much of a problem are Linux viruses anyway? I thought that most of them depend on Internet Explorer and Outlook Express, like the ones that try to do things with your address book. It's not that Linux viruses are inconceivable, but rather that Linux is a much less attractive target for the virus creators. Why stretch to the top of the tree when there's so much low-hanging fruit in the Windows world?
Linux virii and other nasties, do exist, but not in the wild, if memory serves. As to low hanging fruit, have you ever considered how many Linux Based Servers there are on the Internet? Lots, though I don't off hand have a percentage (more than 1/3 IIRC, but I don't have the mag (Linux Journal) handy). The big thing is the permissions to do what with what, that _can_ make Linux much more secure than Windows. However there are folks who like to do it all as root, and there are Distro's (like the former Lindows) who default the user to root permissions.