On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 08:19:27AM +0200, Sylvia Sánchez wrote: > Linux has no viruses. Why would anyone want an anti-virus then? I would like to point out, in the gentlest of manners, that is absolutely untrue. In fact, one of the earliest known bits of effective malware, the Morris worm, attacked Unix systems. (Of course you know that Linux is a lineal descendant of Unix--in fact, there is less difference between Linux and, say, BSD Unix than there was between various Unix variants in the late '80s.) ALL software has bugs and vulnerabilities. Unix and Linux tend to have fewer successfully exploited ones than Windows for numerous reasons, some historical--Unixoid systems have had the concepts of multi-user support and separated privileged access baked in from the get-go, while it evolved into Windows--some demographic--most Unixoid systems are installed and maintained by professionals or, if not pros, people who are generally more technologically savvy than the majority of the millions of Windows users, making the Unix/Linux systems "harder" targets--and some sheer volume; there are one hellova lot of Windows systems, ranging all the way back to Windows 2000 and even earlier, still available for attack. Finally, as others have pointed out, it's a multi-OS world out here, and many Unix/Linux systems are being used as hypervisors for guest operating systems--most assuredly including Windows--or, probably more often, as servers for Windows networks. Sincerely, -- Dave Ihnat dihnat@xxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
