] too. It may be true that there will be viruses (or there may already be some). ] But if a virus gets access to the processor somehow, it still cannot remove any ] important files from the system. I heard there is a windows virus that removes ] windows and installs linux. The other way round would be totally impossible, ] because ] 1. The virus will not get executed ] 2. If it does, it will not be able to remove linux/repartition the hard disk Hi,
Unfortunately this is not entirely true. There are known bugs in most unix flavors (including linux) on the market that can provide root-access to an attacking program. And although there are also known patches for most of these bugs, not everybody is aware and has upgraded his/her system to the latest security patch. Nevertheless, the fact remains that unix is indeed more secure by design than windows 3.x and 9.x flavors. And furthermore, although win-nt flavors can be configured as secure as unix-flavors, the out-of-the-box installation is as insecure as it can be. This is an intentional choice of Microsoft. They prefer to have a system on which an ignorant user can do anything he/she wants without any problems. But if the system would be secure, that would become impossible. In that case, the user should be computer literate enough to still handle the system. Thus, Microsoft has choosen to offer security for user friendliness. Though, a system that is so insecure that it enables any attack to the system is in my humble opinion not so friendly to the user. Before he/she knows, he can not use his/her system anymore at all. Just my 2 cents. Kind regards, Alex Wulms -- Visit The MSX Plaza (http://www.inter.nl.net/users/A.P.Wulms) for info on XelaSoft, Merlasoft, Quadrivium, SD-Snatcher on fMSX, the MSX Hardware list, XSA Disk images, documentation, Japanese MSX news from Ikeda and lots more. -- For info, see http://www.stack.nl/~wynke/MSX/listinfo.html
