RE: QUERY: Linux and virii...

["Suresh Ramasubramanian" <sureshr@xxxxxxx>]

You wrote:

> Regardless of the value of Linux or Unix in general, the
answer is  not
> correct. The only reason the Linux is virus free so far is
because so few
> people use it that virus writers have no incentive to
write them.

There's also the factor of 'not fouling your own nest'.
Most of the 'non malicious' virus authors get bitten by the
GPL bug - and find it far more fun than demonstrating that
M$ products are insecure and wide open (besides being
costly).

As for virii - *nix is far more paranoid about security than
a comparative installation of 'doze.  Of course, if someone
is idiot enough to trust some shell script (which perhaps
changes your root passwd and adds a h4x0r's ssh key) by
opening and executing an attachment (and checking mail while
logged in as root), it's his own fault.

	-suresh
	Make it idiot proof and they'll invent a better idiot