> the linux architecture is to difficult to get in with.
> So it's difficult for some one to write virus in it.
> It uses virtual memory addressing and i think that
> has something to do with it.
No. I don't think its very difficult to "write" a virus for linux,
as opposed to say NT or OS/2. But it won't spread much because
1. Most linux users are well informed and don't do stupid things like
clicking on some weird attachments and such.
2. Unlike M$ WinXX, almost nobody in unix/linux/gnu world run as root
(privileged account) for normal usage. This limits the damage any
virus can do.
3. We don't have stupid programs like outlook that have extremely lax and
potentially dangerous default settings ("automatically open
attachments when I click on the mail").
Now assuming you had such an email client that allows you to
double click attachments to execute them, for unix/linux/gnu, then its not
too hard to email a perl/shell script as an attachment that does nasty
things.
But if you provide/add/obtain such programs, and the habit to work
as root always, and if number of such users increases, then its not very
difficult find linux becoming as prone to virii as NT. Only thing is those
are three "BIG" ifs.
Regards,
Kedar.
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