On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 15:01, Ashley Sheridan <ash@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-01-08 at 10:10 -0500, Daniel Brown wrote:
>> Linux is just as susceptible to
>> viruses, worms, and other malware
> I'd beg to differ. While it may be susceptible, I think it is far less
> so, just because of the security it has from the off. And also, the type
> of people who tend to use Linux do often tend to be more technical who
> are less prone to certain methods of virus attack.
Correct --- which comes down to the operator and the potential the
software offers, not the software itself. If a user leaves everything
as its default setting, vulnerabilities and exploits will be found,
which reclassifies a "secure" system as an "insecure" system.
*NIX systems can be patched and re-patched.... but changing
nothing, keeping it as it original was off the shelf (as was the
broad-scope case with Windows until recently) creates an equality in
insecurity.
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