On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Christopher Booth wrote: > > http://www.vnunet.com/News/1127347 > extract... > > Linux lined up as virus target > > "Of course we will see more and more attacks on Windows, but Linux will > be a target because its use is becoming more widespread," said Raimond > Genes, European president for antivirus at Trend Micro. "It is a stable > OS, but it's not a secure OS." > > Jack Clarke, European product manager at McAfee, said: "In fact it's > probably easier to write a virus for Linux because it's open source and > the code is available. So we will be seeing more Linux viruses as the OS > becomes more common and popular." >
Utter FUD! It's also a f*cking lot easier to fix when you have the source and it's a lot harder to hide virus code in the source. The virus detection companies have a vested interest in saying this because their software is largely obsolete on a Linux system. Also on the security front it's utter bullshit saying it's insecure. Nowadays by default it's probably more secure than a Windows box ever will be by default. Of course you can make it as secure or insecure as you like. Still, we wish to buy their software if it runs on Linux for the benefit of the Windows machines our Linux servers are protecting. A really good argument is that a Windows virus cannot infect a Linux OS. Sure, you may be able to crash netscape with the same bugs, crash a poorly written email client etc but they are just applications, it doesen't compromise the system as a whole, other users will not be affected. -- ---<GRiP>--- Web: www.arcadia.au.com/gripz Phone/fax: 02 4950 1194 Mobile: 0408 686 201 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
