As an example to why linux is more sucure, see the latest flaw in Firefox: it allows an attacker to create a file on your machine. This could be used to create a batch file on windows, or a shell script in Linux; however, on Linux shell scripts (or any other file) are not executable by default, you have to chmod +x them. And they still don't have root access if you don't run as root (and on Linux you usually don't, unlike on Windows).
On Sun, 2005-05-08 at 15:40 +0300, Dan Kaspi wrote: >Hello, > > I tried to convince somebody I know to move to Linux at home and > at work. I am myself an advocate user of Linux at work and at home. > > He works with a XP at work (a hightech company; however , he is > not a programmer) ,and also XP at home. > > When listing the main advantages of Linux , the most important one >I had thought of was security ; when you access the internet from a Linux >machine, chances that you get a virus or spyware or someone will intrude >your machine are smaller ; He answered that , when thinking in the long >term (2-3 years) , as more people will use linux as a desktop, >this can be easiy changed; moreover, he claimed that since Linux is an open >source, >maybe it is even easier to develop viruses/spyware to it. In this point >I did not know what to answer him. I am not a >security expert; it could be that he is right in this point. -- Keep on rocking in a free world! ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
