One of the biggest problems with Linux and viruses has nothing to do
with Linux itself getting infected. One of the more common Linux virus
related scenarios involves someone running Linux receiving an infected
email from someone running Windows. The computer running Linux does not
get infected, but it does pass it on if the email is forwarded.
Personally, in over a decade of running Linux I have never had a virus.
You pretty much have to be socially engineered into it. As Manuel
pointed out, know where you are installing your software from. I can
see a potential scenario where a user searches for a PPA for something
common, and then installs the first one they see looking at the PPA
itself which may not be official and could contain the software they
are looking for, recompiled with a vulnerability. That could be
especially disastrous if you install a kernel with wget and don't pay
attention to the URL.
On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 7:49 AM, Manuel Cuadra <[email protected]>
wrote:
I just think that any OS can be potentially harmful, specially if you
install whatever exists and believe in anything on the internet. The
differences between Windows and Linux is that everyone can contribute
to make it more secure to back doors and hacks so Linux is always
more secure but not unbreakable, and Windows private code usually
have a really big amount of security breaches that get´s resolved on
a large amount of time and that makes the OS exposed to people
knowing about those problems and exploits them as much as they want,
and Windows charges you for that LOL, on the other hand, the Client
has a lot of responsibilities that they should know about when
installing an APP and from what source.
2014/1/4 Ali Linx (amjjawad) <[email protected]>
On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 4:19 PM, Fred <[email protected]> wrote:
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Hi Ali. Hi All.
Perfect my friend.
Have a great Weekend.
[Frédéric Lagneau]
Hi,
But I was actually asking the list if they agree with me or with my
neighbor who think "Linux is far from being free of malware??!!" :D
That is why I started the thread on Ubuntu Forums. I want to be
corrected in case I am wrong :)
Thank you!
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