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   From: Dan N    
   Subject: Re: Linux/virus   
   Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2007 20:51:10 +0900   
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   On Thu, 08 Mar 2007 02:57:03 -0500, Cory Albrecht wrote:   
      
   > Pete wrote:   
   >> Doesn't Linux need an anti-virus and anti-spyware.   
   >> Or is it by some miracle immune?   
   >    
   > No, it's just that Linux (and *BSD) make up such a small fraction of   
   > desktop & basic user  machines that's it's not worth the time of virus   
   > writers...   
      
   Not true at all.  Linux is more secure by design.  Unix, the predecessor   
   of Linux, was designed from the very beginning to be a secure, multi-user   
   platform, before Gates had even dreamt of ms-dos.  For Windows, security   
   was tacked on afterward by necessity.   
      
   Linux, secure as part of the core design.  Windows, security added on top   
   as a matter of necessity.    
      
   Dan   
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