How about this one...
It's like entering a house through the door:
Windows OS has key locks, most virii use some variation of a lock picker.
Unix/Linux OS have numeric key pads, a lock picker is completely useless,
you have to use something else to break in.
In both cases you can still stand in front of the door and not let people
in or out. Or simply walk in if somebody leaves the door open.
With Unix/Linux, once you're in you find other doors locked in various
ways depending on importance.
On Fri, 12 Mar 2004, Bill Bennett wrote:
> It's a peculiar request, so please bear with me.
>
> I had been asked why Linux was immune to the wave of viruses
> that have been pillaging Microsoft-oriented machines. To be
> honest, I didn't have a ready reply. The best I could do was
> "Well, Linux is differently organised." Feeble, I know, but the
> enquirer was not a nurd and, if it comes to that, neither am I.
>
> So I thought about the matter. I wanted a good analogy.
>
> This was the best that came to mind:
>
> "Assume someone has put something in your petrol that rots
> piston heads and only piston heads. Eventually the engine
> will fail.
>
> *However* it's not going to affect me if my engine is a Wenkel."
>
> As I say, the best I could do.
>
> Can anyone do better? The issue *must* have surfaced in the past
> and valid analogies must have been drawn for the non-technical.
> My reason for wanting this is that, occasionally I'm asked why I
> will not even look at, or consider going back to MS. Blinding
> people with technicalia generally gets you nowhere.
>
> Bill Bennett.
>
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