Mark wrote: > And the only reason that Linux and Macs are so relatively safe from > viruses and worms is because they aren't targeted, not because they > are fundamentally more secure. > > Well, considering that most web sites run Apache on Linux or Unix, I'm not so sure about that. And if you investigate the way Windows and Linux/Unix are designed, I'm certain you're wrong. You might want to read up on how IE became so tightly coupled with the OS. You can start with the Netscape vs Microsoft trial, where MS claimed IE could not be removed, because it was part of the OS. At that time it wasn't, but next version of Windows (W98 IIRC) it was and as a result, Windows has been wide open to attack via IE. Then you can look at how difficult it is for a virus to propagate in Linux/Unix because a user cannot write to files outside his authorized areas etc. And, of course, Unix was designed from the ground up to be multiuser and had appropriate protection mechansims built in. Windows was built on top of single user DOS and then tried to have all the holes fixed. Bottom line, there are a lot of technical and usage reasons that make it much harder for malware to attack Linux/Unix. -- Use OpenOffice.org <http://www.openoffice.org> _______________________________________________ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@xxxxxxxxx https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
