On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Grant Parnell wrote: > > 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!
Complete and <what you said>. > 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 I doubt that an out-of-the-box Linux distro was ever less secure than default Windows of the same era... > 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 Why buy it? McAfee's uvscan for Linux is available free, and the updates which people pay a pile for are free as well. The beautiful naiupdt.pl means that you're always up to date, automatically. > 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. That's the basis of Unix philosophy - "screw yourself, but it's not going to do donkey's droppings for anyone else". Unless you work as root, in which case you deserve everything you get. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- #include <disclaimer.h> Matthew Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
