On Thursday 03 March 2005 07:41 am, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote:
Not very. There are very few viruses or worms that are out there (That work) for UNIX-based systems. It's reported that there has never been a successful virus written for Mac OS X. Not to say they don't exist (Spyware/Addware is even less of a worry, as almost all OSS is devoid of it). Your greatest worry is recieving a virus for Windows that you accidentally forward on to Windows-users in emails.
How necessary is virus protection in linux
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