Exactly that is why you can't be infected by a Winblows virus on a Mac
platform and vice versa. It also is the same reason you can't run Winbloze
apps in Linux without an emulator. BTW, haven't seen too many viruses for
Linux lately and how many are there for Winblows, umm ... around 50,000?
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Original message from: Dan Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Toby Sheets wrote:
>
>> Is Linux susceptible to the same virii that Windoze is?
>
>No, because viruses are written for a particular processor/OS platform,
>and none of the calls upon which a DOS/windows virus would rely are
>present in Linux. Of course, if you're running WINE or VMWare, that's
>another story...
>
>--
>Dan Brown, KE6MKS, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good
>with ketchup.
