Hi, On 15 April 2012 08:49, V. Sasi Kumar <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear friends, > > Now that Apple computers also are found to be susceptible to virus > attacks, GNU/Linux machines remain the only ones not affected yet. But > I do not agree to the view that GNU/Linux machines are not affected yet, there are a lot of exploits one could find in a GNU/Linux box[1]. Of course they are getting patched, and the usually boxes which dont run updates are the victims. But GNU/Linux, or all of the *NIX are yet to see any mentionable amount of virus/malware. Its defenetly harder to write them than for the M$ but not impossible[2]. A virus is a nuisance, in usual cases it doesnt actually generate any money for the developer, people write it for fun and I belive *NIX will never have more than couple of them because, * Its a less popular platform among general public ( for *NIX users, system is never a blackbox.) * There is no actual money in developing one this hard. * Things get fixed too fast. [1] http://www.exploit-db.com/search/?action=search&filter_page=1&filter_description=&filter_exploit_text=&filter_author=&filter_platform=16&filter_type=0&filter_lang_id=0&filter_port=&filter_osvdb=&filter_cve= [2] http://www.neowin.net/news/a-history-of-viruses-on-linux > for how long? Considering that Mac OSX is based on BSD, how long will it > take for someone to write viruses for GNU/Linux? I am sure that when it > happens, it will create a big splash. But that itself should be > temptation enough for crackers to try that. Has anyone here understood > how the Apple virus overcame the security measures in-built in the OS? > Are our days of peace and security coming to an end? > > All the best, > A somewhat worried GNU/Linux user. > -- > V. Sasi Kumar > Free Software Foundation of India > http://swatantryam.blogspot.com > > -- > "Freedom is the only law". > "Freedom Unplugged" > http://www.ilug-tvm.org > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "ilug-tvm" group. > To control your subscription visit > http://groups.google.co.in/group/ilug-tvm/subscribe > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > > > > For details visit the google group page: > http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-tvm?hl=en > -- Regards, Dhananjay M Balan, Department Of Computer Science, College Of Engineering, Trivandrum. http://cet.ac.in -- "Freedom is the only law". "Freedom Unplugged" http://www.ilug-tvm.org You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ilug-tvm" group. To control your subscription visit http://groups.google.co.in/group/ilug-tvm/subscribe To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For details visit the google group page: http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-tvm?hl=en
