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   From: ac <"aec$news"@candt.waitrose.com>   
   Newsgroups: alt.os.linux.ubuntu   
   Subject: Re: Linux/virus   
   Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2007 20:19:28 +0000   
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   Pete wrote:   
   > Doesn't Linux need an anti-virus and anti-spyware.   
   > Or is it by some miracle immune?   
      
   Its infertile environment for viruses is not by any means a miracle.    
   It is the result of very deliberate efforts of developers who wanted    
   better security at the initial expense of user (apparent)    
   inconvenience (note 1) and the continuing efforts of every user who    
   soon finds it is both unnecessary and unwise to run while logged in as    
   admin.   
      
   The very few viruses that there are for linux have a really hard time    
   spreading, partly for the reasons above.   
      
   Note 1:   
   Inconvenience is relative. I find the thousands of windows viruses    
   actively in the wild inconvenient to such an extent that I do not use    
   windows. The inconvenience of following a few simple formalities when    
   installing programs in linux- is not inconvenient for me at all.   
   hth   
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