On 22/03/06, Linda Walsh <suse@tlinx.org> wrote:
Andre Truter wrote:
OK, Linux don't have things like ActiveX and Javascript can be controlled with the different browsers themselves.
That's the point -- those technologies aren't built into the Window\ manager on Linux. If you ported "Explorer" to Linux, "Linux" could be infected with the same viruses as Windows. It's the desktop and the automated MS applications that allow virii in.
???? No, Linux cannot be infected with the same viruses (virii if you prefer) as Microsoft operating systems can be. There are some viruses that only affect certain versions of Windows too. A virus could infect Internet Explorer only if it was running in WINE. Once WINE was closed the virus would have nowhere to live/hide. On a Windows system the virus hides away in whatever files the virus writer has chosen. Those files do not exist in the same manner on a Linux system. Or have I been told wrong all these many times? -- ============================================== I am only human, please forgive me if I make a mistake it is not deliberate. ============================================== Xmas may be over but, PLEASE DON'T drink and drive you'll make it to the next one that way. Kevan Farmer Linux user #373362 Cheslyn Hay Staffordshire WS6 7HR