I once had a conversation with a software engineer from a major anti-virus company and he said "Of the 50,000 viruses we scan for only 800 have ever infected anybody in the wild".
The story is self serving FUD.. I know - I use the same tactic myself. The first question I ask computer users who persist in making stupid mistakes and assumptions is "Do you have the box your computer came in?" You know the response to "Yes". As for the user who doesn't back up his data, he will someday experience a valuable object lesson. Let's solve the problems with msec and abondon the trolls. Jim Tarvid On Sunday 02 June 2002 09:33 pm, you wrote: > I must make the point that whilst Linux does restrict what a virus can > do, if I lose my home dir it will take me a lot of time to restore from > backup and get back to where I was. Yes, you wont lose the system, but > very inconvenient non the less! > > Mandrake is aiming at the desktop, and the less experianced user so > avenues to infect using social engineering (imagine this virus set up > like the Anna Korn... virus? Yes its hard to execute stuff > unintentionally under Linux, but with a combination of inexperiance and > misconfiguration, I am sure more than one person will mangage it ... > > And people VERY often will execute cute files sent to them by relatives > under windows - what is to stop them doing the same under Linux. My > fear is that this is a baby step down this path ... > > BillK > > On Mon, 2002-06-03 at 08:58, Joseph Braddock wrote: > > The difference is that Linux restricts access by default, Windows grants > > it. It is true, that some (many) people login as root for convenience, > > and they could also install everything (although Mandrake at least > > questions starting some services automatically, if you do select them > > all). But, even so, it is still much more difficult to inflict a virus > > on Linux than on Windows. It is a user's responsibility to install > > security updates and many distributions make it relatively easy and > > painless. Again, as contrasted with Windows, when Microsoft actually > > admits a security problem (usually after someone else has gone public > > with it), their patches create more vulnerabilities. Hardly a good > > example.
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