I never said your Linux box bets infected, I said " I gave up on the Mozilla Thunderbird email because there were just too many viruses for it that could work no matter what platform you ran on. "
Your email client itself gets "infected". This is completely different than boot sector or other type OS-specific virus. Since you chose to sit back, put your fingers in your ears and humm real loud when they were mentioned here are a couple which took less than 10 seconds to find via ASK.com. http://casescontact.org/alerts/110058 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28012 On Mar 2, 10:05 am, Roy Charles <[email protected]> wrote: > Sounds like fear mongering to me. You can pass on viruses in Linux but > I have never heard of anyone contracting one. I have used Linux for > many years without any virus protection and I do lots of email. > > Basically I don't care about spreading Windows viruses. Anyone who > uses Windows deserves what they get, IMO. Likewise in Linux if you are > stupid enough to run as root or give a virus access to your root > partition then you deserve it. > > I would like to see this substantiated before we start sending > messages promoting fear. Show me evidence of a Linux user being > infected through using Thunderbird and you will get my attention. > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ubuntu Linux" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/ubuntulinux?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
