P. J. Alling wrote:
I expect so. Linux and various flavors of Unix have their own brands of Viri, (I know not the proper plural of Virus but hey it's a mailing list),. Most virus writers these days depend on "kits". I expect to see a few for the Mac real soon now.
I ask again where did you hear about viruses for Linux or any other flavour of Unix. On any UNIX (Linux, BSD, Mac OS X or any other) a process needs to be running as ROOT do do any damage to the system. (a would-be virus would have to ask: "Please type in the root password for this system") This is the reason why UNIX is safe and Windows isn't. If you don't work for Microsoft you shouldn't spread their FUD (Fear, Uncertanty and Doubt) Of course any software you run on UNIX can have access to your /home directory but that's as far as it goes.
