On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 04:19:01 +0000, g <geleem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Kevin Kofler wrote: > > > Statistics on GNU/Linux viruses? What's next: statistics on pink unicorns? > > Flying pigs? Even primes other than 2? ;-) > > thanks for your reply kevin. one way or other, you can always be counted on. :) > > seriously. i know that they are near nil for linux, and more for ms that there > are satisfied ms windows users. What are you trying to accomplish? It has been known almost from the start of virus scanning, that blacklists were a broken way to do things. So there really isn't a need to get a list of viruses or worms. If you want lists, you want lists of code that is OK to run. Linux users can still have problems with viruses or worms. Until SELinux gets a bit better, they can still be tricked into running programs similar to how Windows users are. There are some apps that run on linux that are designed to easily execute code disquised as data. Open Office is one case where this isn't considered a bug. And there are still bugs that can be exploited being found from time to time. And things are getting worse. I see lots of complaints here about flash not working. You need to be crazy to be running flash programs from random web sites. And people are still trying to turn web browsers into an application environment instead of a simple document viewer. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
