On Sunday 20 Nov 2005 04:50, Chad Smith trolled: > On 11/19/05, Alexandro Colorado <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > MS is the only OS that have virus. think about it? Not even your > > cellphone running Symbian OS has vriuses. > > http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2143697/grisoft-warns-linux-virus > > Grisoft predicts Linux virus plague > > 'Only a matter of time,' warns antivirus firm
And yet linux anti-virus programs are essentially non existant? They make apps for linux that scan for windows viruses, yet seem very slow to make anything that scans for linux viruses... Possibly because actual linux viruses attacking desktop boxes are just not out there in the wild as yet. They have been promising them for the last 10 years or so that I've been using linux. I'm still waiting. > A Google search for Antivirus Linux returns 14 million results > > http://www.google.com/search?q=antivirus+linux And what the point you are making here? These entries appear to be about software that scans for windows viruses on linux servers? > Doing the same with Antivirus Mac yields 7 million > > http://www.google.com/search?q=antivirus+mac > <http://www.google.com/search?q=antivirus+linux> And 26 million for antivirus + windows - and like most of the 14 million linux entries, these are about windows viruses no doubt... The Mac entries seem to be about Mac's... Your point? -- --------------------------------------------------------- Tim Fairchild Atchafalaya Border Collies. Kuttabul, Queensland, Australia. --------------------------------------------------------- Email mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage http://www.bcs4me.com Photos http://www.pbase.com/amosf Blog http://bcs4me.com/blog --------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
