Malware for Linux

Joshua Judson Rosen rozzin at geekspace.com
Sat Jul 14 02:34:43 EDT 2012


"Michael ODonnell" <michael.odonnell at comcast.net> writes:
>
> Those who use terms like "immune" or "virus-proof" when
> discussing Linux do everybody a disservice since neither
> is true.  We are, for now, statistically less likely to be
> compromised because there aren't as many of us and because
> privilege separation has been more the custom with us than
> with Windows users.  Those factors are changing, though...

I guess it's been a while since the last time we talked about this:

	http://article.gmane.org/gmane.org.user-groups.linux.gnhlug/19300/match=culture

Note the highlighted parts. It's not obvious to me that anything's
changed since then.

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