>> Furthermore, even if there were enough Linux viruses to worry about, >> there isn't a good way of getting infected. On Windows, you download >> random executables from the net. On Gentoo, you install your stuff >> through portage. It's nearly impossible to get infected. > > except when someone puts up or takes over a rsync server and starts providing > malicious ebuilds.
And most malware runs an exploit to install itself, it doesn't require the user to run an installation program. So typical attack vectors are: network services, documents/media files (.pdfs flash etc), and all the usual web stuff. As stated earlier buffer overflows against Gentoo would be a nightmare to write due to the system variability....RHEL not so much.
