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   From: Colin Wilson    
   Newsgroups: alt.os.linux.ubuntu   
   Subject: Re: Linux/virus   
   Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2007 20:27:42 -0000   
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   > Doesn't Linux need an anti-virus and anti-spyware.   
   > Or is it by some miracle immune?   
      
   Further to the other answers, while some core components are similar,    
   the variety of software available to do other tasks varies significantly    
   - so a virus that might try to exploit a hole in an email app for    
   example, might find that only a tiny percentage of machines out there    
   actually use the same software and might be vulnerable to it.   
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