Re: Why linux is less prone to viruses

In comp.os.linux.misc, on Fri 19 May 2006 23:38, ray
<ray@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Fri, 19 May 2006 16:04:55 +0000, AZ Nomad wrote:

On Fri, 19 May 2006 08:53:47 -0600, ray <ray@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:


On Fri, 19 May 2006 07:01:59 -0700, mknarang.nsit@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

There are several reasons. For one, 'everybody' is writing MS viruses
- hardly anyone bothers with Linux viruses - security by obscurity.
Bullshit. There are enough linux systems on the network for virusess
to propagate if viruses were possible.

There isn't a single linux virus in the wild.

Exactly the point. Because no one bothers.

No! Not because no-one bothers, but because they don't work.

Proofs of concept exist,

The proof of concept offerings all fail the definition of a virus - that
it is able to install self-executing and self-replicating copies of
itself

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