On Mon, 07 Feb 2005 20:17, Lindsay wrote: > I have been of the understanding that Linux is relatively virus and > intruder safe. How accurate is my understanding of this? Fairly.
Remember that only God is perfect, and He didn't write Linux, Linus did. That is to say: There are holes of various sizes being found all the time but they are usually filled in pdq. There hasn't been a serious one for quite a long time. If you tend to extreme paranoia, run OpenBSD instead. ( ps I have a Linux firewall which pretends to keep us safe. :-) ( And as far as I can tell it is pretty good at the pretension. ) -- Sincerely etc., Christopher Sawtell
