On Thursday 21 February 2002 01:02, you wrote: > Hello! > > > No real need , I have never had a virus in Linux. I don't say it's > > impossible, but the ease of which viruses spread is due to the simple PC > > origine of Windows. No system of permissions for example. > > Yes, for the time being, no known virus in Linux. But one point > I was wondering about: if the original poster runs a server, and if > he has some crap machines connected to it, I guess he does need > some kind of antivirus, either on the machines themselves, or on the > server. I have built a Mandrake-based network for a school, and > I have the same problem. The funny thing in this case is that > Mandrake would havt to kill virii designed for other machines... > Maybe the best antivirus will be to install Mandrake on all the > crap machines. > > Beside that, I do also think that virus design is easier on homogeneous > systems. Nature tells us that diversity is necessary to life, so it must > be something like that for computers as well. > > > John > > Honjaa! > > Pascal
-- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] That is fair comment. I don't really know what the answer is. John
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