On Thu, 04 Dec 2008 at 09:58:26AM +0000, The Holy ettlz wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-12-04 at 09:10 +0000, Paul Stimpson wrote:
>
> > "How about viruses?"
> >
> > "None"
>
> Hmm, this isn't entirely true though, is it? There is a small ecosystem
> for Linux malware (cracked forum, anyone?) including a handful of
> viruses.
There are in practice no real Linux viruses in the real world.
That's not to say that there are not worms, Trojans and other
forms of nasty things out there that hunt Linux systems.
As you say it is an over simplification but even so there are tens
of thousands of items of malware for Windows and less than
hundreds for Linux.
--
Adam Trickett
Overton, HANTS, UK
Failure is not an option. It comes bundled with Windows.
-- anon
