On Feb 21, 2006, at 2:33 AM, Peter Udbjørg wrote:
I have come across speculations here on the G-list. Speculations, not rumors, that is. Something to the effect that equal instructions set = equal opportunity for virus writers. No matter if X is Unix and Longhorn/Vista/Whatever is something else (the cat dragged in), also the fact? rumors?
Were that the case, there would be several thousand Linux viruses. While CPU-specific stuff can be used to create a virus, The OS is the target of the attack, not the CPU.
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